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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Davis, Joseph E. (Editor ), González, Ana Marta, 1969- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2016]
Colección:Biopolitics (New York, N.Y.)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.