The goals and limits of medicine /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Stockholm :
Almqvist & Wiksell International,
1996.
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| Series: | SHS / Department of Health and Society, Linköping University,
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. Basic concepts
- On the notion of a goal: a conceptual platform for the setting of goals in medicine / Per-Erik Liss
- On medicine and other species of health enhancement / Lennart Nordenfelt
- Pt. 2. The different domains within medicine and their interrelations
- On the rationality of medicine / Ingemar Nordin
- Medicine and caring as fields of knowledge: a comparison / Barbro Gustafsson
- The role of different professions in defining the goals of medicine / Jennifer Bullington
- Pt. 3. The medical encounter
- The hermeneutics of medicine / Fredrik Svenaeus
- Symptoms or the understanding of persons? Questions of focus in relation to the setting of the goals of medicine / Olle Hellström
- Pt. 4. Issues of health policy and health politics
- Generalism as a goal of medicine: implications for education / Johannes Vang
- Allocation mechanisms in health care / Per-Olof Bjuggren
- The theory and practice of the welfare state / Joseph Agassi.