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Prognosis

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. Beautifully written, it encourages a positive view of life's unpredictability in all its r...

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Other Authors: Gordon, J. Jillœq(Jennifer Jill) (Editor), Macnaughton, Jane (Editor), Rudebeck, Carl Edvard (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London, UK Radcliffe Publishing © 2014
Series:Medical humanities companion v. 4
Subjects:
Communication in medicine
Physician and patient
Prognosis > Psychological aspects
Prognosis > Social aspects
Prognosis
Communication
Physician-Patient Relations
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1.Narratives / Anne MacLeod
  • 2.A piece of my skin: a physician facing his future / Raimo Puustinen
  • 3.Prognosis as process / Rolf Ahlzen
  • 4.Prognosis, time and commitment / Carl Edvard Rudebeck
  • 5.Acute and chronic / John Saunders
  • 6.Becoming / Jane Macnaughton
  • 7.Prognosis or prophecy? / Jill Gordon
  • 8.First do no harm / Pekka Louhiala
  • 9.Technology, ageing and death / Iona Heath
  • 10.Open futures, human finitude / Martyn Evans

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