The healing tradition : reviving the soul of western medicine /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Greaves, David
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; San Francisco : Radcliffe Publishing, 2004.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Sudden infant deaths : models of health and illness
  • What are heart attacks? Rethinking some aspects of medical knowledge
  • Conceptions of persons and dementia
  • The tradition of the healer
  • The enduring appeal of the Victorian family doctor
  • Changing priorities in residential medical and social services
  • Contrasting perspectives of inequalities in health and in medical care
  • The creation of partial patients
  • The nature and role of medical humanities
  • Biomedical, humoral and alternative systems of medicine
  • Reflections on a new medical cosmology