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Medical humanities companion. Volume 4 / by Jill Gordon, Jane MacNaughton and Carl Edvard Rudeback.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gordon, Jill, author.
- MacNaughton, Jane, author.
- Rudeback, Carl Edvard, author.
- Series:
- Medical humanities companion ; v. 4.
- Medical humanities companion ; volume four
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prognosis.
- Internal medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (148 pages).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, [2013].
- Summary:
- This fourth volume in the Companion to Medical Humanities series contemplates the challenge of the prognosis, of looking ahead, wondering what will happen, and attempting to make sense of life and death.
- Contents:
- chapter 1 Narratives
- chapter 2 A piece of my skin: a physician facing his future / Raimo Puustinen
- chapter 3 Prognosis as process
- chapter 4 Prognosis, time and commitment / Carl Edvard Rudebeck
- chapter 5 Acute and chronic / John Saunders
- chapter 6 Becoming / Jane Macnaughton
- chapter 7 Prognosis or prophecy? / Jill Gordon
- chapter 8 First do no harm
- chapter 9 Technology, ageing and death / Iona Heath
- chapter 10 Open futures, human finitude / Martyn Evans.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 25, 2019).
- ISBN:
- 9781040192009
- 1040192009
- 9781846195556
- 1846195551
- 9780429083884
- 0429083882
- 9781910227336
- 1910227331
- OCLC:
- 1024286726
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