pt. 1. Ethics in medicine -- 1. Is there a distinctively surgical ethics? -- 2. The fivefold root of an ethics of surgery -- 3. Does reading poetry make you a better clinician? -- 4. Euthanasia and the meaning of life -- pt. 2. Philosophy and medicine -- 5. Assignments of meaning in epidemiology -- 6. "Better than numbers ..." A gentle critique of evidence-based medicine -- 7. Research, ethics and conflicts of interests -- 8. Logic, hermeneutics and informed consent -- 9. On trust -- 10. Resource constraints and moral pressures -- 11. Ethonomics -- 12. Discourse communities and the discourse of experience -- pt. 3. Illness experience and survivor-ship -- 132. Liminality: a major category of the experience of cancer illness -- 14. Survivor-ship and discourses of identity -- 15. The skull beneath the skin
