The goals and limits of medicine /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Universitetet i Linköping, Hastings Center
Other Authors: Nordenfelt, Lennart, 1945-, Tengland, Per-Anders
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1996.
Series:SHS / Department of Health and Society, Linköping University, 24
Subjects:
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.