Treatment / edited by Pekka Louhiala, Iona Heath and John Saunders.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Louhiala, Pekka, editor.

Heath, Iona, editor.

Saunders, John, editor.

Series:

Medical humanities companion ; v. 3.

Medical humanities companion ; volume three

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine and the humanities.

Medicine--Philosophy.

Medicine.

Clinical medicine.

Sick--Psychology.

Sick.

Symptoms.

Diagnosis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (162 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Radcliffe Publishing, [2014]

Summary:

This third volume in the Companion to Medical Humanities series considers the concept of treatment as an active process which produces an outcome, be it effective, inappropriate or inadequate. It invites the reader to examine the relevance of the patients' belief in any given treatment and their confidence in the practitioner. Against a person-cent

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

About the editors and authors

Introduction

Acknowledgement

Playing God (poem by Glenn Colquhoun)

The patients' stories

Chapter 1: On treatment and its effects

Chapter 2: Wonderful treatment

Chapter 3: Treatment - a matter between subjects

Chapter 4: Deciding on treatment

Chapter 5: Paternalism, power and autonomy

Chapter 6: Symptoms without disease: territory without a map

Chapter 7: The paradox of placebo - real and sham in medicine

Chapter 8: Considering the alternatives: or, who is the medicine man?

Chapter 9: Boldness and temperance in treatment

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 25, 2019).

ISBN:

9781040191842

1040191843

9781846193705

1846193702

9780429083679

042908367X

9781910227329

1910227323

OCLC:

1024265925