Confessions of a Medicine Man
An Essay in Popular Philosophy
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Word Count
44,750 words, Guess
Page Count
179 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL9441558M
- ISBN-139780262700726
- ISBN-100262700727
- OCLC Control Number43718028
- OCLC Control Numberconfessionsofmed0000taub
and 2 more
- LibraryThing770374
- Goodreads2204632
Classifications
- DDC174/.2
- LCCR724 .T38 1999
Description
In Confessions of a Medicine Man, Alfred Tauber probes the ethical structure of contemporary medicine in an argument accessible to lay readers, healthcare professionals, and ethicists alike. Through personal anecdote, historical narrative, and philosophical discussion, Tauber composes a moral portrait of the doctor-patient relationship. In a time when discussion has focused on market forces, he seeks to show how our basic conceptions of health, the body, and most fundamentally our very notion of selfhood frame our experience of illness. Arguing against an ethics based on a presumed autonomy, Tauber presents a relational ethic that orients medical science and a voracious industry back to their primary moral responsibility: the empathetic response to the call of the ill.
First Sentence
Twenty-five years ago medicine was approaching the cusp of what we now call "the health care crisis."
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