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

(Part of the Biopolitics Series)

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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"

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