The Limits Of Medicine
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Author | : Herbert Ho Ping Kong |
Publisher | : ECW Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2014-07-01 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 1770905669 |
A renowned diagnostician shares stories of his patients and explores the importance of the human factor in medicine. In The Art of Medicine, Toronto Western Hospital’s internist Dr. Herbert Ho Ping Kong draws on his vast dossier of personal cases and five decades as a clinician to examine the core principles of a patient-centered approach to diagnosis and treatment. While HPK, as he is fondly known, recognizes and applauds the many invaluable innovations in medical technology, he makes the point that as disease and its management grow increasingly complex, physicians must learn to develop an arsenal of more basic skills, actively using the arts of seeing, hearing, palpation, empathy, and advocacy to provide a more humane and holistic form of care. Aimed at medical practitioners, aspiring doctors, or anyone interested in health and medicine, this book also contains interviews with more than a dozen of HPK’s patients, as well as short essays that explore the thinking of his professional colleagues on the art of medicine.
Author | : Ivan Illich |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Iatrogenic diseases |
ISBN | : 9780553105964 |
Author | : Edward S. Golub |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1997-05 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780226302072 |
Edward Golub, distinguished researcher and former professor of immunology, shows that major advances in medicine are caused by changes in the way scientists describe disease. Bleeding, sweating, and other treatments we consider barbaric were standard treatments for centuries because they conformed to a conception of disease shared by patients and doctors. Scientific breakthroughs in the understanding of disease in the nineteenth century transformed treatment and the goals of medicine. Golub argues that the ongoing revolution in molecular genetics has opened the door to the "biology of complexity," again transforming our view of disease. This thought-provoking, timely book reveals a crucial but overlooked role of science in medicine, and offers a new vision for the goals of both science and medicine as we enter the twenty-first century.
Author | : Heta Häyry |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2002-02-07 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 113492383X |
The Limits of Medical Paternalism defines and morally assesses paternalistic interventions, especially in the context of modern medicine and health care, particular emphasis is given to the analysis of the conceptual background of the paternalism issue. In this book an anti-paternalistic view is presented and defended.
Author | : Ivan Illich |
Publisher | : Marion Boyars |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780714529936 |
The medical establishment has become a major threat to health, says Ivan Illich. He outlines the causes of iatrogenic diseases.
Author | : Andrew Stark |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2006-01-16 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780521672269 |
This book addresses the limits of medicine by examining two mirror-image debates in tandem.
Author | : Jack D. Pressman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 582 |
Release | : 2002-08-08 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780521524599 |
This book, first published in 1998, revisits the period in the 1940s and 1950s when many Americans were operated on for mental illness.
Author | : Daniel Callahan |
Publisher | : Georgetown University Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1995-03-01 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9781589018679 |
A provocative call to rethink America's values in health care.
Author | : Daniel Callahan |
Publisher | : What Kind of Life |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780878405732 |
From the author of Setting Limits comes a challenging exploration of the proper goals of medicine in our rapidly changing society--a work destined to spark debate and influence policy for years to come.
Author | : Jacob Stegenga |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : MEDICAL |
ISBN | : 0198747047 |
"Medical nihilism is the view that we should have little confidence in the effectiveness of medical interventions. This book argues that medical nihilism is a compelling view of modern medicine. If we consider the frequency of failed medical interventions, the extent of misleading evidence in medical research, the thin theoretical basis of many interventions, and the malleability of empirical methods in medicine, and if we employ our best inductive framework, then our confidence in the effectiveness of medical interventions ought to be low" --