The Healer's Tale

Transforming Medicine and Culture

Sharon R. Kaufman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

368 Seiten

1995
University of Wisconsin Press (Verlag)
978-0-299-13554-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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 future.

Sharon R. Kaufman is associate professor of anthropology and research medical anthropologist at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the author of The Ageless Self: Sources of Meaning in Late Life, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.12.2008
Reihe/Serie	Life Course Studies
Verlagsort	Wisconsin
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	500 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-299-13554-3 / 0299135543
ISBN-13	978-0-299-13554-6 / 9780299135546
Zustand	Neuware