作者: Elaine A. Blechman , Connie J. Clay
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-5275-4_14
关键词: Sociology of scientific knowledge 、 Psychosomatic medicine 、 Psychotherapist 、 Quality (business) 、 Empirical evidence 、 Alternative medicine 、 Psychology
摘要: Many women seek help for premenstrual complaints and many practitioners are eager to sell them services. The quality of the medical psychiatric services they receive is questionable, reflecting inadequate scientific knowledge about unjustified acceptance by unverified assumptions etiology treatment. In legal arena as well, decisions made regarding with that simply not supported credible, empirical evidence. Here again, problem twofold: Premenstrual have only recently become target methodologically rigorous inquiry (see chapters Halbreich & Endicott, O’Brien, Reid, Rubinow, Sampson, Steiner Haskett, this volume); a result, relevant limited. addition, courts accepted complaints, some which inconsistent available, albeit scarce,