Medical Humanities Companion, Volume 3
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Medical Humanities Companion, Volume 3

  1. 162 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Medical Humanities Companion, Volume 3

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This third volume in the Companion to Medical Humanities series considers the concept of treatment as an active process which produces an outcome, be it effective, inappropriate or inadequate. It invites the reader to examine the relevance of the patients' belief in any given treatment and their confidence in the practitioner. Against a person-cent

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Yes, you can access Medical Humanities Companion, Volume 3 by Pekka Louhiala, Iona Heath, John Saunders in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Medizin & Medizinische Theorie, Praxis & Referenz. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9781910227329
Edition
1
Topic
Medizin
Subtopic
Medizinische Theorie, Praxis & Referenz

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. About the editors and authors
  6. Introduction
  7. Acknowledgement
  8. Playing God (poem by Glenn Colquhoun)
  9. The patients’ stories
  10. Chapter 1: On treatment and its effects
  11. Chapter 2: Wonderful treatment
  12. Chapter 3: Treatment – a matter between subjects
  13. Chapter 4: Deciding on treatment
  14. Chapter 5: Paternalism, power and autonomy
  15. Chapter 6: Symptoms without disease: territory without a map
  16. Chapter 7: The paradox of placebo – real and sham in medicine
  17. Chapter 8: Considering the alternatives: or, who is the medicine man?
  18. Chapter 9: Boldness and temperance in treatment
  19. Index