Category: Kumar & Clark
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Updated Medical Textbook Still Promotes Biopsychosocial Ideology
For decades, Kumar & Clark’s Clinical Medicine has been a standard textbook for medical education around the world. Last month, Elsevier pubished the 11th edition. The miniscule section on what it calls “chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalopathy” is pathetic. This section is in a chapter called “General Hospital Psychiatry,” promotes “psychological symptoms” as a core component…