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Medical humanities companion. Volume 4 /

This fourth volume in the Companion to Medical Humanities series contemplates the challenge of the prognosis, of looking ahead, wondering what will happen, and attempting to make sense of life and death.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Gordon, Jill (Author), MacNaughton, Jane (Author), Rudeback, Carl Edvard (Author)
Corporate Author: CRC Press
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, [2013]
Edition:First edition.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1 Narratives
  • chapter 2 A piece of my skin: a physician facing his future / Raimo Puustinen
  • chapter 3 Prognosis as process
  • chapter 4 Prognosis, time and commitment / Carl Edvard Rudebeck
  • chapter 5 Acute and chronic / John Saunders
  • chapter 6 Becoming / Jane Macnaughton
  • chapter 7 Prognosis or prophecy? / Jill Gordon
  • chapter 8 First do no harm
  • chapter 9 Technology, ageing and death / Iona Heath
  • chapter 10 Open futures, human finitude / Martyn Evans.