Confessions of a medicine man an essay in popular philosophy /

A physician/philosopher uses anecdotes, historical narrative, and philosophical concepts to draw a moral portrait of the doctor-patient relationship."My mission is to analyze medicines ethical structure. I do so as both a physician and a philosopher. Of my two voices, it is the latter that is i...

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Main Author: Tauber, Alfred I.
Other Authors: EBSCOhost.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1999]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 159 pages)
Series: Bradford book.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1.
  • Turmoil and challenges
  • 2.
  • Course of autonomy
  • 3.
  • Breakdown of autonomy
  • 4.
  • Call of the other
  • 5.
  • Toward a new medical ethic
  • 6.
  • Metaphysical musings.