To Fix or to Heal: Patient Care, Public Health, and the Limits of Biomedicine

Book Overview

Do doctors fix patients? Or do they heal them? For all of modern medicine's many successes, discontent with the quality of patient care has combined with a host of new developments, from aging populations to the resurgence of infectious diseases, which challenge medicine's overreliance on narrowly mechanistic and technical methods of explanation and intervention, or "fixing' patients. The need for a better balance, for more humane "healing" rationales...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479809586
• ISBN13: 9781479809585
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"