Philosophy for medicine : applications in a clinical context /
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; San Francisco : Radcliffe Medical Press, c2004. |
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| Description: | ix, 157 p. : ill. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5582133 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- About the editors
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- The day begins ...
- First let's consider your left thumb ... An introduction to the philosophy of medicine
- And then the doctor told me ... The clinical encounter as the core of medicine
- You're certain that's what's wrong? The problem of knowledge in medicine
- This cancer's my punishment, isn't it? Guilt, shame and medicine
- Tao of medicine? Cultural assumptions in medical theory and practice
- What has Art got to do with it? The aesthetics of clinical practice
- Do we really have to live with this? Uncertainty in medicine
- But hasn't Hippocrates said it all already ...? Philosophy of medicine and changing traditions
- But who can say what's right and wrong? Medicine as a moral enterprise
- So is all this really relevant? My first 50 years in medical theory, practice and philosophy of medicine
- The day ends
- Index
