Medicine, Rationality and Experience

Medicine, Rationality and Experience
Author: Byron J. Good
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1994
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780521425766

Biomedicine is often thought to provide a scientific account of the human body and of illness. In this view, non-Western and folk medical systems are regarded as systems of 'belief' and subtly discounted. This is an impoverished perspective for understanding illness and healing across cultures, one that neglects many facets of Western medical practice and obscures its kinship with healing in other traditions. Drawing on his research in several American and Middle Eastern medical settings, in this 1993 book Professor Good develops a critical, anthropological account of medical knowledge and practice. He shows how physicians and healers enter and inhabit distinctive worlds of meaning and experience. He explores how stories or illness narratives are joined with bodily experience in shaping and responding to human suffering and argues that moral and aesthetic considerations are present in routine medical practice as in other forms of healing.

Introduction to Medical Software

Introduction to Medical Software
Author: Xenophon Papademetris
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2022-05-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1316514994

A concise and accessible overview of the design, implementation and management of medical software.

Professionalism in Medicine

Professionalism in Medicine
Author: John Spandorfer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2010
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0521879329

This book highlights concepts of professionalism in medicine such as ethical issues and both clinical and non-clinical challenges in patient care.

How to Get Into Medical School

How to Get Into Medical School
Author: Christopher See
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2010-08-03
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 0749461411

The medical school application procedure can be a cause of great stress for its applicants as well as their parents. The pressure to complete complicated forms and undergo extensive revision as well as the additional anxieties about work experience make it difficult to know where to start. How To Get into Medical School offers practical help and advice on all of these subjects and more. It gives you a clear idea of what is required and desired for medical school applications, real life examples with key learning points of what to avoid and how, as well as sample test questions from the UKCAT and BMAT exams. It is written by a doctor who qualified in medicine from Trinity College Cambridge and who also prepares high school children with potential for applications to Oxbridge and top universities in the UK and US, for the subjects of science and medicine. Online resources for this book include downloadble templates including sample letters, essays and work experience diary.

Chekhov's Doctors

Chekhov's Doctors
Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2003
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780873387804

In his brief life, Chekhov was a doctor, essayist, dramatist and a humanitarian. He saw no conflict between art and science or art and medicine. This collection of stories presents powerful portraits of doctors in their everyday lives, struggling with their own personal problems.

Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and Medicine

Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and Medicine
Author: Susan Ayers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781849724449

Health psychology is a rapidly expanding discipline at the interface of psychology and clinical medicine. This text offers a comprehensive, accessible, one-stop resource for clinical psychologists, mental health professionals and specialists in health-related matters.

The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics

The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics
Author: Robert B. Baker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0521888794

The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics provides the first global history of medical ethics.