In search of the modern Hippocrates / edited by Roger J. Bulger. - 1st ed. - Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1987. - 1 online resource (ix, 256 pages)

Includes bibliographical references.

The modern context for a healing profession / The search for a new ideal / Hippocrates and history: The arrogance of humanism / Toward an expanded medical ethics: The Hippocratic ethic revisited / The golden rule and the cycle of life / Narcissus, Pogo, and Lewis Thomas' wager / On the drinking of the hemlock: Socrates, Semmelweis, and Barbara McClintock / Emerging unities of the twenty-first century: Service as sacrament, emotional neutrality, and the power of the therapeutic word / The anthropology of healing / The lost secret of ancient medicine / Thomas Merton the healer / Words as scalpels: Transmitting evidence in the clinical dialogue / Placebos, patients, and physicians / Lying / The future of medical practice / Technology and the eclipse of individualism in medicine / The humanities and the arts in medical education / A postscript from the physician as patient: Some observations on having a coronary / A dialogue with Hipppocrates and Griff T. Ross, M.D. / Roger J. Bulger -- Roger J. Bulger -- Dickinson W. Richards -- Edmund D. Pellegrino -- Erik H. Erikson -- Roger J. Bulger -- Roger J. Bulger -- Roger J. Bulger -- Lola Romanucci-Ross and Laurence R. Tancredi -- Guido Majno -- Robert Coles -- Stanley J. Reiser -- Howard M. Spiro -- Ralph Crawshaw -- Arnold S. Relman -- Stanley J. Reiser -- Roger J. Bulger -- David E. Rogers -- Roger J. Bulger.


English.

1587290227 9781587290220


Medical ethics.
Physician and patient.
Healing.
Ethics, Medical.
Medicine.
Physician-Patient Relations.
MEDICAL--Ethics.
Healing.
Medical ethics.
Physician and patient.
Medical Ethics & Philosophy.
Medicine.
Health & Biological Sciences.


Electronic books.
Electronic books.

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