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The Healer's Tale: Transforming Medicine and Culture (Life Course Studies)
Sharon R. Kaufman
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Paperback. This is an enquiry into the tremendous changes that have transformed medicine in the past half-century. It examines how "runaway" technology has thrown up ethical questions in medicine. Series: Life Course Studies. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJH; 3JJP; JFC; MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 503.
There are many important questions raised in this book. The fragmentation of medical values, whether a good doctor requires as much knowledge of the person as of the disease, the claims created by a scientific medicine dependent upon the largesse of government grants, the conversion of medicine from ""cottage industry"" to entrepreneurial endeavour, all had their beginnings in medicine's Golden Age. Their heirs, today's practitioners, may have mistaken technology for their task, science for their religion, and business for their creed, but if the spirit of the physicians in this book wins out, medicine's Golden Age is yet in the ... Read more
There are many important questions raised in this book. The fragmentation of medical values, whether a good doctor requires as much knowledge of the person as of the disease, the claims created by a scientific medicine dependent upon the largesse of government grants, the conversion of medicine from ""cottage industry"" to entrepreneurial endeavour, all had their beginnings in medicine's Golden Age. Their heirs, today's practitioners, may have mistaken technology for their task, science for their religion, and business for their creed, but if the spirit of the physicians in this book wins out, medicine's Golden Age is yet in the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Series
Life Course Studies
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299135546
SKU
V9780299135546
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