Medical

From Skepticism to Competence

Editorial: University of Chicago Press

ISBN: 9780226833910

Pub: 2024-07-07

While many medical professionals can physically examine the body to identify and understand its troubles—a cardiologist can take a scan of the heart, an endocrinologist can measure hormone levels, an oncologist can locate a tumor—psychiatrists have a much harder time unlocking the inner workings of the brain or its metaphysical counterpart, the mind.