To fix or to heal : patient care, public health, and the limits of biomedicine / edited by Joseph E. Davis and Ana Marta González.

Date:
[2016]
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Publication/Creation

New York : New York University Press, [2016]

Physical description

viii, 335 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Holism against reductionism / Joseph E. Davis -- Part I: Reductionist medicine in cultural context. Reductionist medicine and its cultural authority / Joseph E. Davis -- The problem of suffering in the age of prozac: a case study of the depression memoir / Christina Simko -- After medicine: the cosmetic pull of neuroscience / Luis E. Echarte -- Reductionism, holism, and consumerism: the patient in contemporary medicine / Robert Dingwall -- Part II. Reductionist medicine and the disease burden. After the therapeutic revolution: the return to prevention in medical policy and practice / Anne Hardy -- Digitized health promotion: risk and personal responsibility for health and illness in the Web 2.0 era / Deborah Lupton -- The global threat of (re)emerging diseases: contesting the adequacy of biomedical discourse and practice / Jon Arrizabalaga -- Replacing the official view of addiction / Bruce K. Alexander -- Part III. The need for a more holistic ethical discourse. Bioethics and medicalization / John H. Evans -- The dominion of medicine: bioethics, the human sciences, and the humanities / Jeffrey P. Bishop -- In search of an ethical frame for the provision of health / Ana Marta González -- Conclusion: limits in the interest of healing / Joseph E. Davis.

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    History of Medicine
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  • 9781479878246
  • 1479878243
  • 9781479809585
  • 1479809586