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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Piemonte, Nicole M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Medicine > Philosophy.
Medical ethics.
Medical education > Philosophy.
Medical education.
MEDICAL > Osteopathy.
MEDICAL > Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL > Essays.
MEDICAL > Atlases.
MEDICAL > Alternative Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Reference.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Holism.
Enseignement medical.
Éthique medicale.
Enseignement medical > Philosophie.
Medecine > Philosophie.
Ethics, Medical
Education, Medical
Philosophy, Medical
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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