Afflicted : How Vulnerability Can Heal Medical Education and Practice /
While many commentators have pointed to the lack of compassion and empathy in medicine, their critiques, for the most part, have not considered seriously the deeper philosophical, psychological, and ontological reasons why clinicians and medical students might choose to conceive of medicine as an en...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
[2018]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Exploring the shortcomings of a "scientific" medical education
- The "remainder" in modern medicine: the lived experience of illness and existential anxiety
- Turning toward suffering together
- The formation of medical "professionals"
- The journey back to oneself: reimagining medical education
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.