Medical Humanities Companion, Volume 4

ISBN-13: 9781846195556 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 128 str.

Gordon

Opis

This fourth volume in the Companion to Medical Humanities series contemplates the challenge of the prognosis, of looking ahead, wondering what will happen, and attempting to make sense of life and death.

Spis treści

About the editors and authors. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Narratives. A piece of my skin. Prognosis as process. Prognosis, time and commitment. Acute and chronic. Becoming. Prognosis or Prophecy? First do no harm. Technology, ageing and death. Open futures, human finitude. Postscript.

O autorze

Jill Gordon, Jane MacNaughton, Carl Edvard Rudeback