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Author : Ivan Illich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780553105964
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Medical Nemesis written by Ivan Illich and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Heta Häyry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113492383X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book The Limits of Medical Paternalism written by Heta Häyry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-02-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Herbert Ho Ping Kong
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1770905669
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (79 download)
Download or read book The Art of Medicine written by Herbert Ho Ping Kong and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Marion Boyars
ISBN 13 : 9780714529936
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Limits to Medicine written by Ivan Illich and published by Marion Boyars. This book was released on 1995 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The medical establishment has become a major threat to health, says Ivan Illich. He outlines the causes of iatrogenic diseases.
Author : Edward S. Golub
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226302072
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Limits of Medicine written by Edward S. Golub and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jacob Stegenga
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198747047
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Medical Nihilism written by Jacob Stegenga and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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" --
Author : Jack D. Pressman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521524599
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (245 download)
Download or read book Last Resort written by Jack D. Pressman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-08 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1998, revisits the period in the 1940s and 1950s when many Americans were operated on for mental illness.
Author : Robert H. Blank
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231514262
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Medicine Unbound written by Robert H. Blank and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1994-08-11 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicine Unbound
Author : Siddhartha Mukherjee
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 147678485X
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book The Laws of Medicine written by Siddhartha Mukherjee and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential, required reading for doctors and patients alike: A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one of the world’s premiere cancer researchers reveals an urgent philosophy on the little-known principles that govern medicine—and how understanding these principles can empower us all. Over a decade ago, when Siddhartha Mukherjee was a young, exhausted, and isolated medical resident, he discovered a book that would forever change the way he understood the medical profession. The book, The Youngest Science, forced Dr. Mukherjee to ask himself an urgent, fundamental question: Is medicine a “science”? Sciences must have laws—statements of truth based on repeated experiments that describe some universal attribute of nature. But does medicine have laws like other sciences? Dr. Mukherjee has spent his career pondering this question—a question that would ultimately produce some of most serious thinking he would do around the tenets of his discipline—culminating in The Laws of Medicine. In this important treatise, he investigates the most perplexing and illuminating cases of his career that ultimately led him to identify the three key principles that govern medicine. Brimming with fascinating historical details and modern medical wonders, this important book is a fascinating glimpse into the struggles and Eureka! moments that people outside of the medical profession rarely see. Written with Dr. Mukherjee’s signature eloquence and passionate prose, The Laws of Medicine is a critical read, not just for those in the medical profession, but for everyone who is moved to better understand how their health and well-being is being treated. Ultimately, this book lays the groundwork for a new way of understanding medicine, now and into the future.
Author : Joseph E. Davis
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479878243
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)
Download or read book To Fix Or To Heal written by Joseph E. Davis and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 overreliance on narrowly mechanistic and technical methods of explanation and intervention, or “fixing’ patients. The need for a better balance, for more humane “healing” rationales and practices that attend to the social and environmental aspects of health and illness and the experiencing person, is more urgent than ever. Yet, in public health and bioethics, the fields best positioned to offer countervailing values and orientations, the dominant approaches largely extend and reinforce the reductionism and individualism of biomedicine. The collected essays in To Fix or To Heal do more than document the persistence of reductionist approaches and the attendant extension of medicalization to more and more aspects of our lives. The contributors also shed valuable light on why reductionism has persisted and why more holistic models, incorporating social and environmental factors, have gained so little traction. The contributors examine the moral appeal of reductionism, the larger rationalist dream of technological mastery, the growing valuation of health, and the enshrining of individual responsibility as the seemingly non-coercive means of intervention and control. This paradigm-challenging volume advances new lines of criticism of our dominant medical regime, even while proposing ways of bringing medical practice, bioethics, and public health more closely into line with their original goals. Precisely because of the centrality of the biomedical approach to our society, the contributors argue, challenging the reductionist model and its ever-widening effects is perhaps the best way to press for a much-needed renewal of our ethical and political discourse.
Author : Daniel Callahan
Publisher : What Kind of Life
ISBN 13 : 9780878405732
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)
Download or read book What Kind of Life written by Daniel Callahan and published by What Kind of Life. This book was released on 1995 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Roger B. Dworkin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253113146
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Limits written by Roger B. Dworkin and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1996-09-22 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An excellent resource for entry-level courses on bioethics for health care practitioners, law students, and physicians." -- Choice "Dworkin's provocative arguments... will challenge readers who have come to accept the law's intrusion as a necessary response to biomedical advances." -- New England Journal of Medicine "Important and refreshing. Dworkin's conclusions regarding the limited role of law (and especially legislation) may come as a surprise to many.... When popular and political views are almost evenly divided, looking to legislation for a solution is a mistake." -- Walter Wadlington The ethical and social dilemmas associated with abortion, sterilization, assisted reproduction, genetics, death and dying, and biomedical research have led many to turn to the legal system for solutions. Rogert Dworkin argues that resort to law often overlooks the limitations of legal institutions, and he suggests a more limited use of the legal system will produce more effective resolution of bioethical dilemmas.
Author : Sarah B. Rodriguez
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978800975
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)
Download or read book The Love Surgeon written by Sarah B. Rodriguez and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. James Burt believed women’s bodies were broken, and only he could fix them. In the 1950s, this Ohio OB-GYN developed what he called “love surgery,” a unique procedure he maintained enhanced the sexual responses of a new mother, transforming her into “a horny little house mouse.” Burt did so without first getting the consent of his patients. Yet he was allowed to practice for over thirty years, mutilating hundreds of women in the process. It would be easy to dismiss Dr. Burt as a monstrous aberration, a modern-day Dr. Frankenstein. Yet as medical historian Sarah Rodriguez reveals, that’s not the whole story. The Love Surgeon asks tough questions about Burt’s heinous acts and what they reveal about the failures of the medical establishment: How was he able to perform an untested surgical procedure? Why wasn’t he obliged to get informed consent from his patients? And why did it take his peers so long to take action? The Love Surgeon is both a medical horror story and a cautionary tale about the limits of professional self-regulation.
Author : Terrance McConnell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195350685
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Inalienable Rights written by Terrance McConnell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Bharat Jayram Venkat
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478014725
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book At the Limits of Cure written by Bharat Jayram Venkat and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on historical and ethnographic research on tuberculosis in India, Bharat Jayram Venkat explores what it means to be cured and what it means for a cure to be partial, temporary, or selectively effective.
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309172608
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Definition of Serious and Complex Medical Conditions written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-10-19 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to a request by the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), the Institute of Medicine proposed a study to examine definitions of serious or complex medical conditions and related issues. A seven-member committee was appointed to address these issues. Throughout the course of this study, the committee has been aware of the fact that the topic addressed by this report concerns one of the most critical issues confronting HCFA, health care plans and providers, and patients today. The Medicare+Choice regulations focus on the most vulnerable populations in need of medical care and other services-those with serious or complex medical conditions. Caring for these highly vulnerable populations poses a number of challenges. The committee believes, however, that the current state of clinical and research literature does not adequately address all of the challenges and issues relevant to the identification and care of these patients.
Author : Hilde Lindemann Nelson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317828054
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Stories and Their Limits written by Hilde Lindemann Nelson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
