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Confessions of a medicine man : an essay in popular philosophy / Alfred I. Tauber.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tauber, Alfred I., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical ethics.
- Medicine--Philosophy.
- Medicine.
- Physician and patient--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Physician and patient.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (184 pages)
- Other Title:
- MIT Press CogNet.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2000]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- In "Confessions of a Medicine Man, Alfred Tauber probes the ethical structure of contemporary medicine in an argument accessible to lay readers, healthcare professionals, and ethicists alike. Through personal anecdote, historical narrative, and philosophical discussion, Tauber composes a moral portrait of the doctor-patient relationship. In a time when discussion has focused on market forces, he seeks to show how our basic conceptions of health, the body, and most fundamentally our very notion of selfhood frame our experience of illness. Tauber presents a relational ethic that must orient medical science and a voracious industry back to their primary moral responsibility: the empathetic response to the call of the ill.
- Notes:
- Originally published: 1999.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Tauber, Alfred I. Confessions of a medicine man.
- ISBN:
- 9780262284691
- 0262284693
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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