The healing tradition : reviving the soul of western medicine /
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; San Francisco :
Radcliffe Publishing,
2004.
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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