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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465819603321

Autore

Cassell Eric J. <1928-2021.>

Titolo

Doctoring [[electronic resource] ] : the nature of primary care medicine / / Eric J. Cassell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, : Copublication with the Millbank Memorial Fund, 1997

ISBN

1-282-38436-8

9786612384363

9786610453801

1-280-45380-X

0-19-511323-3

0-19-802729-X

1-60256-701-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (221 p.)

Disciplina

610

Soggetti

Physician and patient

Primary care (Medicine)

Holistic medicine

Primary care (Medicine) - Study and teaching

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-197) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. What Is Primary Care?; 2. The Heavy Hand of the Past: Thinking About Diseases Versus Thinking About Persons; 3. The Special Problem of Technology; 4. The Clinical Method; 5. The Clinical Method and the Patient; 6. Where Should Primary Care Be Taught-and by Whom?; 7. What Should Be Taught?; Epilogue; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

American medicine attracts some of the brightest and most motivated people the country has to offer, and it boasts the most advanced medical technology in the world, a wondrous parade of machines and techniques such as PET scans, MRI, angioplasty, endoscopy, bypasses,



organ transplants, and much more besides. And yet, writes Eric Cassell, what started out early in the century as the exciting conquest of disease, has evolved into an overly expensive, over technologized, uncaring medicine, poorly suited to the health care needs of a society marked by an aging population and a predominance of chr