To fix or to heal : patient care, public health, and the limits of biomedicine /
"Do doctors fix patients? Or do they heal them? For all of modern medicine's many successes, discontent with the quality of patient care has combined with a host of new developments, from aging populations to the resurgence of infectious diseases, which challenge medicine's overrelian...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York University Press,
[2016]
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| ISBN: | 9781479884155 1479884154 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Holism against reductionism / Joseph E. Davis
- Part I: Reductionist medicine in cultural context. Reductionist medicine and its cultural authority / Joseph E. Davis
- The problem of suffering in the age of prozac: a case study of the depression memoir / Christina Simko
- After medicine: the cosmetic pull of neuroscience / Luis E. Echarte
- Reductionism, holism, and consumerism: the patient in contemporary medicine / Robert Dingwall
- Part II. Reductionist medicine and the disease burden. After the therapeutic revolution: the return to prevention in medical policy and practice / Anne Hardy
- Digitized health promotion: risk and personal responsibility for health and illness in the Web 2.0 era / Deborah Lupton
- The global threat of (re)emerging diseases: contesting the adequacy of biomedical discourse and practice / Jon Arrizabalaga
- Replacing the official view of addiction / Bruce K. Alexander
- Part III. The need for a more holistic ethical discourse. Bioethics and medicalization / John H. Evans
- The dominion of medicine: bioethics, the human sciences, and the humanities / Jeffrey P. Bishop
- In search of an ethical frame for the provision of health / Ana Marta González
- Conclusion: limits in the interest of healing / Joseph E. Davis.