The healer's tale : transforming medicine and culture
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The healer's tale : transforming medicine and culture
（Life course studies）
University of Wisconsin Press, c1993
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-345) and index
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There are many important questions raised in this book. The fragmentation of medical values, whether a good doctor requires as much knowledge of the person as of the disease, the claims created by a scientific medicine dependent upon the largesse of government grants, the conversion of medicine from ""cottage industry"" to entrepreneurial endeavour, all had their beginnings in medicine's Golden Age. Their heirs, today's practitioners, may have mistaken technology for their task, science for their religion, and business for their creed, but if the spirit of the physicians in this book wins out, medicine's Golden Age is yet in the future.
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