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Family Doctors: Images & Metaphors of the Family Doctor to Learn Family Medicine
Jose Luis Turabian
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Description for Family Doctors: Images & Metaphors of the Family Doctor to Learn Family Medicine
Hardback. Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: MBPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 185 x 261 x 19. Weight in Grams: 546.
Medicine is often learned through a mechanistic metaphor of biology and a military metaphor of war. However, the conceptual elements and skills that promote the mastery of family medicine, such as contextual knowledge, continuity of care, the clinical interview, comprehensiveness, coordination, and so on, are often difficult to explain and to understand. Furthermore, these fundamental concepts of family medicine have nothing to do with the metaphor of the machine or the metaphor of war. In this book, these concepts are explained through metaphors that are more explanatory, nicer, sweeter, and more playful. Thinking based on metaphors and comparisons is a ... Read more
Medicine is often learned through a mechanistic metaphor of biology and a military metaphor of war. However, the conceptual elements and skills that promote the mastery of family medicine, such as contextual knowledge, continuity of care, the clinical interview, comprehensiveness, coordination, and so on, are often difficult to explain and to understand. Furthermore, these fundamental concepts of family medicine have nothing to do with the metaphor of the machine or the metaphor of war. In this book, these concepts are explained through metaphors that are more explanatory, nicer, sweeter, and more playful. Thinking based on metaphors and comparisons is a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781634851763
SKU
V9781634851763
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