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The end of modern medicine : biomedical science under a microscope.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Foss, Laurence
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2002]
Subjects:
Philosophy, Medical.
Holistic Health.
Psychosomatic Medicine.
Ethics, Medical.
Table of Contents:
  • Medical ontology
  • The question never asked
  • The organic solution
  • The motive faculty of the soul
  • Pascal's question
  • The path not taken
  • Sciences of complexity
  • Post-Cartesian thought world
  • National institute of warts and all
  • The ghost in the machine
  • Founding myth
  • The shadow of subjectivity
  • The anxious heart
  • Late night thoughts while listening to Mahler
  • Complementary medicine
  • For want of a vocabulary - The birth of psychobiology
  • Paradigm shift
  • The placebo meta-effect and infomedical science
  • Nature as self-referential and biocultural medicine
  • The metaphysical foundations of modern science
  • The promordial fireball, a work in progress?
  • Humanizing medical science : the systems loop
  • Subjectivity and the messengers of information