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

• Autore: Cassell Eric J. <1928-2021.>
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, : Copublication with the Millbank Memorial Fund, 1997
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (221 p.)
• Disciplina: 610
• Soggetto topico: Physician and patient; Primary care (Medicine); Holistic medicine; Primary care (Medicine) - Study and teaching
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Doctoring
• ISBN: 1-282-38436-8; 9786612384363; 9786610453801; 1-280-45380-X; 0-19-511323-3; 0-19-802729-X; 1-60256-701-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465819603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II