The healer's tale : transforming medicine and culture
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書誌事項
The healer's tale : transforming medicine and culture
(Life course studies)
University of Wisconsin Press, c1993
大学図書館所蔵 全10件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-345) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Contemporary medicine is clearly in a crisis, one brought on by technological miracles that have far outpaced our moral, legal and cultural responses to them. One needs only to glance at the morning newspapers to see the evidence: doctor-assisted suicides, litigation over the custody of artificially conceived children, ""more"" litigation over vegetative maintenance of otherwise ""dead"" people, the health insurance system run amok, and so on. In fact, Kaufman begins with a gallery of these clippings, each covering moral complexities virtually unimaginable a generation ago. We seem to have lost the connection, once obvious, between what medicine does and what it ""should"" do, and it is the quest to recapture that connection that ""The Healer's Tale"" pursues. Kaufman's search for answers leads her to seven of the country's most eminent physicians, each now in his or her 80s and each, therefore, a living historian and practitioner of medicine during its transformation. Through the stories of their careers we begin to learn how the ordinary general physicians of 70 years ago have become today's scientific specialists, how they have responded to these changes, and what their hopes and concerns are regarding the profession's current directions. Because these are real, personal stories, told by some of American medicine's most accomplished practitioners, ""The Healer's Tale"" offers a directly engaging experience for the reader. We come to know and appreciate these doctors as people with deep concerns about the basic issues of health and illness, about medicine's responsibilities to society, and about the meaning (literally, in this case) of life: what are its origins and ends and who controls them?
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