Research Catalog

Title

The healing tradition : reviving the soul of western medicine / David Greaves ; forewords by Kenneth M. Boyd and Howard Brody.

Author

Greaves, David

Publication

Abingdon ; San Francisco : Radcliffe Medical, c2004.

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Additional Authors

• Boyd, Kenneth M.
• Brody, Howard

Description

xii, 166 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

David Greaves explains the concept of dualism which runs between the modern and traditional medicine, and the problems caused by it. He examines different models of medical humanities in relation to particular disease and other issues in medicine.

Subject

• Medicine
• Philosophy, Medical

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Sudden infant deaths : models of health and illness -- 2. What are heart attacks? : rethinking some aspects of medical knowledge -- 3. Concepts of persons and dementia -- 4. The tradition of the healer -- 5. The enduring appeal of the Victorian family doctor -- 6. Changing priorities in residential medical and social services -- 7. Contrasting perspectives of inequalities in health and in medical care -- 8. The creation of partial patients -- 9. The nature and role of medical humanities -- 10. Biomedical, humoral and alternative systems of medicine -- 11. Reflections on a new medical cosmology.

ISBN

185775963X (pbk.) :

OCLC

• 56459384
• SCSB-10152462

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library