Medical Nemesis

Medical Nemesis PDF Author: Ivan Illich
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780553105964
Category : Iatrogenic diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Book Description

The Art of Medicine

The Art of Medicine PDF Author: Herbert Ho Ping Kong
Publisher: ECW Press
ISBN: 1770905669
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 249

Book Description
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.

Limits to Medicine

Limits to Medicine PDF Author: Ivan Illich
Publisher: Marion Boyars
ISBN: 9780714529936
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 294

Book Description
The medical establishment has become a major threat to health, says Ivan Illich. He outlines the causes of iatrogenic diseases.

Stories and Their Limits

Stories and Their Limits PDF Author: Hilde Lindemann Nelson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317828054
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
Narratives have always played a prominent role in both bioethics and medicine; the fields have attracted much storytelling, ranging from great literature to humbler stories of sickness and personal histories. And all bioethicists work with cases--from court cases that shape policy matters to case studies that chronicle sickness. But how useful are these various narratives for sorting out moral matters? What kind of ethical work can stories do--and what are the limits to this work? The new essays in Stories and Their Limits offer insightful reflections on the relationship between narratives and ethics.

Medicine Unbound

Medicine Unbound PDF Author: Robert H. Blank
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231514262
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310

Book Description
Medicine Unbound

Can Medicine Be Cured?

Can Medicine Be Cured? PDF Author: Seamus O'Mahony
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1788544536
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
A fierce, honest, elegant and often hilarious debunking of the great fallacies that drive modern medicine. By the award-winning author of The Way We Die Now. Seamus O'Mahony writes about the illusion of progress, the notion that more and more diseases can be 'conquered' ad infinitum. He punctures the idiocy of consumerism, the idea that healthcare can be endlessly adapted to the wishes of individuals. He excoriates the claims of Big Science, the spending of vast sums on research follies like the Human Genome Project. And he highlights one of the most dangerous errors of industrialized medicine: an over-reliance on metrics, and a neglect of things that can't easily be measured, like compassion. 'A deeply fascinating and rousing book' Mail on Sunday. 'What makes this book a delightful, if unsettling read, is not just O'Mahony's scholarly and witty prose, but also his brutal honesty' The Times.

Inalienable Rights

Inalienable Rights PDF Author: Terrance McConnell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195350685
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 185

Book Description
This book explains what inalienable rights are and how they restrict the behavior of their possessors. McConnell develops compelling arguments to support the inalienability of the right to life, the right of conscience, and a competent person's right not to have medical treatment administered without consent. Yet, surprisingly, he argues that the inalienability of the right to life does not entail that voluntary euthanasia or assisted suicide are wrong. This distinctive defense of inalienable rights will appeal to medical ethicists and other applied ethicists, political theorists, and philosophers of law.

Last Resort

Last Resort PDF Author: Jack D. Pressman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521524599
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 582

Book Description
This book, first published in 1998, revisits the period in the 1940s and 1950s when many Americans were operated on for mental illness.

The Limits of Medicine

The Limits of Medicine PDF Author: Edward S. Golub
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226302072
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
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.

The Limits of Medical Paternalism

The Limits of Medical Paternalism PDF Author: Heta Häyry
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113492383X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 219

Book Description
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.
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