Treatment
This third volume in the Companion to Medical Humanities series considers the concept of treatment as an active process which produces an outcome, be it effective, inappropriate or inadequate.It invites the reader to examine the relevance of the patients' belief in any given treatment and their...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Rodcliffe Publishing ,
c2014
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| Series: | Medical humanities companion
volume 3 |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. On treatmnet and its effects
- 2. Wonderful treatment
- 3. Treatment - a matter bwetween subjects
- 4. Deciding on treatment
- 5. Paternalism, power and autonomy
- 6. Symptoms without disease : territory without a map
- 7. The paradox of placebo - real and sham in medicine
- 8. Considering the alternatives : or, who is the medicine man?
- 9. Boldness and temperance in treatment