Research Catalog

Title

Doctors serving people : restoring humanism to medicine through student community service / Edward J. Eckenfels.

Author

Eckenfels, Edward J.

Publication

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2008], ©2008.

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Description

xiv, 216 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Critical issues in health and medicine

Uniform Title

Critical issues in health and medicine.

Subjects

• Community health services > United States
• Student volunteers in medical care > United States
• Community Networks
• Students, Medical
• United States
• Social Responsibility
• Community Health Services

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-200) and index.

Contents

Foreword / Joseph F. O'Donnell -- Introduction. Humanism in the Time of Technocracy -- Ch. 1. The Emergence of the Rush Community Service Initiatives Program -- Ch. 2. Clinics Serving the Poor and Homeless -- Ch. 3. The New Faces of AIDS -- Ch. 4. Community-Based Grassroots Programs -- Ch. 5. The Community Today, Tomorrow the World -- Ch. 6. Looking for Meaning -- Ch. 7. Empirical Estimates of Patients and Clients Served -- Ch. 8. The Learning and Development of the Students -- Ch. 9. Nurturing Idealism, Advancing Humanism, and Planning Reform -- Ch. 10. A Personal Reflection: The Staying Power of the Call of Service -- Appendix A. Sources of Funding for RCSIP -- Appendix B. Guidelines for Maintaining Safety and Security -- Appendix C. Publications and Presentations of RCSIP Participants -- Appendix D. The Social Medicine, Community Health, and Human Rights Curriculum.

ISBN

• 9780813543154 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0813543150 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9780813543161 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0813543169 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007037881

OCLC

• ocn173182612
• 173182612
• SCSB-5416818

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries