The Healer's Tale : Transforming Medicine and Culture

ISBN-13: 9780299135508 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 368 str.

Sharon R. Kaufman

Opis

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.