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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791084403321

Autore

Eiser Arnold R. <1947->

Titolo

The ethos of medicine in postmodern America : philosophical, cultural, and social considerations / / Arnold R. Eiser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

1-4985-2097-9

0-7391-8181-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Disciplina

362.10973

Soggetti

Health - Social aspects - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The ethos medical practice in age of computerized technology -- On the nature of medical knowledge : evidenced based medicine in postmodern America -- The culture of medical practice : corporate computerization versus the face of the other -- Practical and ethical concerns regarding aspects of quality improvement measures -- The uneven encounter between postmodern expectations & corporate control of medical practice -- Power and trust in the patient-physician relationship : postmodern values and the patient-centered medical home -- Medical education in postmodern America : a physician-in-training is a consumer too -- Medical professionalism : what does altruism have to do with it? -- The postmodern physician ethos and morale -- Bioethics in postmodern America -- Ethical medicine, performativity, and the Silicon cage -- Medical care embedded in American culture : repositioning the medical ethos for the 21st century -- Epilogue : ethos of medicine in postmodern America.