Contemporary medicine is clearly in a crisis, one brought on by technological miracles that have far outpaced our moral, legal and cultural responses to them. One needs only to glance at the morning newspapers to see the evidence: doctor-assisted suicides, litigation over the custody of artificially conceived children, more litigation over vegetative maintenance of otherwise dead people, the health insurance system run amok, and so on. In fact, Kaufman begins with a gallery of these clippings, each covering moral ...
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Contemporary medicine is clearly in a crisis, one brought on by technological miracles that have far outpaced our moral, legal and cultural responses to them. One needs only to glance at the morning newspapers to see the evidence: doctor-assisted suicides, litigation over the custody of artificially conceived children, more litigation over vegetative maintenance of otherwise dead people, the health insurance system run amok, and so on. In fact, Kaufman begins with a gallery of these clippings, each covering moral complexities virtually unimaginable a generation ago. We seem to have lost the connection, once obvious, between what medicine does and what it should do, and it is the quest to recapture that connection that The Healer's Tale pursues.
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Very Good. GREAT BOOK! MILD WEAR ON DUSTJACKET, LIGHTLY AGED PAGES, A FEW LIBRARY STAMPS BUT NO MARKING IN TEXT. "Description: "With reform in the air, The Healer's Tale is a timely and thoughtful inquiry into the tremendous changes that have transformed medicine in the past half-century....It is carefully written and rewards close reading [and] can certainly be recommended warmly to those who are concerned about the ethical climate that runaway technology has created in medicine. It is also an excellent biography of seven intriguing and important physicians."J. Gordon Scannell, M.D., New England Journal of Medicine "There are many important questions raised in this fine book, if only a few answers, which suggests the rare delight Kaufman's comments and her material provide. The fragmentation of medical values, whether a good doctor requires as much knowledge of the person as of the disease, the claims created by a scientific medicine dependent upon the largesse of government grants, the conversion of medicine from 'cottage industry' to entrepreneurial endeavor, all had their beginning in medicine's Golden Age. Their heirs, today's practitioners, may have mistaken technology for their task, science for their religion, and business for their creed, but if the spirit of the physicians in this book wins out, medicine's Golden Age is yet in the future."Howard Spiro, M.D., Journal of the American Medical Association"
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 750grams, ISBN: 0299135500.
