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"This volume explores the social, historical and cultural dimensions of medicine, and promotes a multifaceted approach towards health, illness, healthcare and body. The articles gathered here focus on various issues relevant to medical knowledge, public health policies, and the experiences of b...
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Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
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| Publisher Address: | Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"This volume explores the social, historical and cultural dimensions of medicine, and promotes a multifaceted approach towards health, illness, healthcare and body. The articles gathered here focus on various issues relevant to medical knowledge, public health policies, and the experiences of being ill and of caring for those who are ill. The questions and theories discussed by the authors, concerning methodological, ethical and philosophical aspects of medical knowledge, will serve to open up new vistas of study for the reader." -- |
| Carrier Form: | 118 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781443886185 1443886181 |
| Index Number: | R702 |
| CLC: | R-05 |
| Call Number: | R-05/M489-10 |
| Contents: |
Normality, ideology, and inquiry into human life in the thought of Georges Canguilhem / Medical knowledge: from the synchronic angle to diachronic transience / Pirogov vs Galen: philosophical method in medicine / "Come home, doc!": practical aspects of the eleogenetic approach to therapy / Philosophy of self and its impact on modern psychiatry: a view from psychiatry and neuroscience / The dignity of the patient and defensive medicine / The human search for meaning in P.G. Hensler and J. Wakatsuki Houston's Don't cry, it's only thunder: the existential analysis perspective / |