Medical challenges for the new millennium : an interdisciplinary task /
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| Imprint: | Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2001. |
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| Description: | xv, 142 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4530747 |
Table of Contents:
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- I.. Historical Perspectives
- Developments in Ancient Medicine - Models for Today's Challenges? Contemporary Medicine and the Christianisation of the Roman Elite--a Parallel
- "Dying Well" and the Doctors
- II.. From Alternative to Integrative Medicine
- Complementary Care in the United States
- Alternative Medicine in Germany--Personal Views of a Critical Observer
- III.. Restructuring Health Care Systems
- Rationing Health Care in Germany: Constitutional Opportunities and Limits
- Structural Changes in Health Care Systems - the Advent of "e-healthcare"
- IV.. New Technologies
- Minimally Invasive Robotic Telesurgery
- The Strange Case of Molecular Medicine - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Revisited?
- V.. Ethical Reflections
- Ethical Dilemmas in Medicine at the Beginning and the End of Life
- The Idea of Progress in Medical Ethics
