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• Title:Hippocratic oaths : medicine and its discontents / Raymond Tallis.
  
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• Author/Creator:Tallis, Raymond.
  
• Published/Created:London : Atlantic Books, 2004.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: W61 .T24 2004
    
  • Number of Items:2
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Medicine--Philosophy.
  Medical care.
  Mind and body.
  
• Medical Subjects: Philosophy, Medical
  Delivery of Health Care
  Attitude to Health
  
• Description:ix, 342 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  
• Summary:"Hippocratic Oaths blends philosophy, polemic, and over thirty years of professional medical experience to create an analysis of modern medicine. It challenges our preconceptions about the nature of medicine, and examines unflinchingly the disjunction between the healthcare we believe we are entitled to, and the difficult realities of what is possible." "Tallis looks at the truth behind current dissatisfaction with healthcare; why medicine requires us to approach our bodies in counterintuitive ways; and why the exploding popularity of alternative therapies is bad for doctors and patients alike."--Jacket.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:1843541262 (hardcover)
  
• Contents:(very) personal introduction
  1. medicine-taking animal : a philosophical overture
  2. miracle of scientific medicine
  3. coming of age of the youngest science
  4. Communication, time, waiting
  5. Power and trust
  6. Enemies of progress
  7. Representations and reality
  8. 'Meagre increments' : the supposed failure of success
  9. end of medicine as a profession?
  10. 'Everyone has to die sometime'
  Envoi.