Aging bones : a short history of osteoporosis / Gerald N. Grob.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Johns Hopkins biographies of diseasePublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2014]Copyright date: Description: xx, 284 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781421413181
  • 1421413183
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 616.7/16 23
LOC classification:
  • RC931.O73 G76 2014
NLM classification:
  • 2014 E-770
  • WE 11 AA1
Online resources:
Contents:
History and demography -- Origins of a diagnosis -- The transformation of osteoporosis -- Popularizing a diagnosis -- Internationalizing osteoporosis -- Therapeutic expansion -- Osteoporosis triumphant?
Summary: This book makes a historical inquiry into how the normal aging of bones was transformed into a medical diagnosis requiring treatment. -- Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-273) and index.

History and demography -- Origins of a diagnosis -- The transformation of osteoporosis -- Popularizing a diagnosis -- Internationalizing osteoporosis -- Therapeutic expansion -- Osteoporosis triumphant?

This book makes a historical inquiry into how the normal aging of bones was transformed into a medical diagnosis requiring treatment. -- Publisher description.

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