| Description |
xx, 324 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. People, healing and medicine. 1. Caring for the sick / Peter Brooks -- 2. Caring for the well / Chris Silagy -- 3. Non-medical care / Peter Baume -- 4. Healers and their society / John Ellard -- 5. Choices in health / Ian Webster -- Pt. 2. Some underpinnings. 6. Cartesian thinking in health and medicine / Miles Little -- 7. Reason and emotion in medical ethics: a missing element / Paul M. McNeill -- 8. The politics of bioethics / Max Charlesworth -- 9. Judgement difficult / Eric J. Cassell -- Pt. 3. Achievements of medicine. 10. research and progress / Judith A. Whitworth -- 11. Advances in disease treatment / Richard Larkins -- 12. Beyond medicine: the wider determinants of population and global health / Anthony McMichael and David Leon -- Pt. 4. Dilemmas in medicine. 13. Current distortions / Peter Baume -- 14. Death or imortality / Robert J. Maxwell -- 15. The 'disease model' challenged / Deborah Saltman -- 16. Better health / Stephen Leeder -- 17. How much should we spend on health services? / Jeff Richardson -- 18. Problems at the beginning of life / John Yu -- 19. Medicine at the end of life / Malcolm Fisher -- 20. Nursing and the end of life / Dorothy Angell |
| Analysis |
Bioethics |
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Complementary medicine |
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Health care |
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Medical ethics |
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Medical profession |
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Nursing |
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Public health |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography |
| Subject |
Medical care.
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Medical ethics.
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Social medicine.
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Ethics, Medical.
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Social Medicine.
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| Author |
Baume, Peter.
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| ISBN |
0864331304 |
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