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Treatment

This third volume in the Companion to Medical Humanities series considers the concept of treatment as an active process which produces an outcome, be it effective, inappropriate or inadequate.It invites the reader to examine the relevance of the patients' belief in any given treatment and their...

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Other Authors: Louhiala, Pekka (Editor), Heath, Iona (Editor), Saunders, John (Physician) (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK Radcliffe Publishing © 2014
Series:Medical humanities companion v.3
Subjects:
Therapeutics > Social aspects
Therapeutics > Psychological aspects
Physician and patient
Communication in medicine
Therapeutics
Physician-Patient Relations
Patients > psychology
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Table of Contents:
  • Playing God (poem by Glenn Colquhoun)
  • The patients' stories
  • On treatment and its effects
  • Wonderful treatment
  • Treatment - a matter between subjects
  • Deciding on treatment
  • Paternalism, power and autonomy
  • Symptoms without disease: territory without a map
  • The paradox of placebo - real and sham in medicine
  • Considering the alternatives or Who is the medicine man?
  • Boldness and temperance in treatment

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