Healing Experience Readings on the Social Context of Health Care

Name: Healing Experience Readings on the Social Context of Health Care
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ISBN: 9780135010402

ISBN-10: 0135010403

ISBN-13: 9780135010402

Edition: 1994

Authors: William Kornblum, Carolyn D. Smith

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Description:

This anthology explores medical and health-related problems from the perspectives of well-known health care practitioners and medical sociology researchers--all of whom have written about their lives and struggles in vivid detail. Explores major topics such as the healer's role, healers at work, healers and patients, healing and women, healing and outsiders, and re-creating healing institutions. Raises and explores the larger, basic issues of medical practice and medical institutions from a perspective based on firsthand experience and close observation. For those in the medical and health-related fields, and those interested in medical sociology.

Book details

List price: $60.80
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 1/31/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



The Healer's Role



Medical Lessons from History




Dilemmas in the Doctor-Patient Relationship




I Can't Hear You While I'm Listening



Healers at Work



Genesis of a Community Psychiatrist




The Art of Surgery




The Ultimate in Surgery




The Joy of My Life




Emergency Room Nurse




Rape Kit




Daring to Heal



Healers and Patients



Starting Out








The Use of Force




and Speed Vogel, The Road Back



Healing and Women



English, The Dictatorship of the Ovaries








Midwifery as Feminist Praxis



Healing and Outsiders



Excess Mortality in Halrem




AIDS Patients








Dissatisfaction Guaranteed




Ideology and Holistic Alternatives



Re-Creating Healing Institutions



Applying Moral Principles




From Explosion to Implosion: Transforming Healthcare




Building a Hospice: A Personal Viewpoint




Reforming Our Health Care System: A Physician's Perspective




Postscript



Index