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To Fix or to Heal : Patient Care, Public Health, and the Limits of Biomedicine.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Biopolitics SeriesPublisher: New York : New York University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (344 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781479884155
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: To Fix or to HealDDC classification:
  • 174.2
LOC classification:
  • QH332
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Holism against Reductionism -- PART I. REDUCTIONIST MEDICINE IN CULTURAL CONTEXT -- 1. Reductionist Medicine and Its Cultural Authority -- 2. The Problem of Suffering in the Age of Prozac: A Case Study of the Depression Memoir -- 3. After Medicine: The Cosmetic Pull of Neuroscience -- 4. Reductionism, Holism, and Consumerism: The Patient in Contemporary Medicine -- PART II. REDUCTIONIST MEDICINE AND THE DISEASE BURDEN -- 5. After the Therapeutic Revolution: The Return to Prevention in Medical Policy and Practice -- 6. Digitized Health Promotion: Risk and Personal Responsibility for Health and Illness in the Web 2.0 Era -- 7. The Global Threat of (Re)emerging Diseases: Contesting the Adequacy of Biomedical Discourse and Practice -- 8. Replacing the Official View of Addiction -- PART III. THE NEED FOR A MORE HOLISTIC ETHICAL DISCOURSE -- 9. Bioethics and Medicalization -- 10. The Dominion of Medicine: Bioethics, the Human Sciences, and the Humanities -- 11. In Search of an Ethical Frame for the Provision of Health -- Conclusion: Limits in the Interest of Healing -- About the Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Holism against Reductionism -- PART I. REDUCTIONIST MEDICINE IN CULTURAL CONTEXT -- 1. Reductionist Medicine and Its Cultural Authority -- 2. The Problem of Suffering in the Age of Prozac: A Case Study of the Depression Memoir -- 3. After Medicine: The Cosmetic Pull of Neuroscience -- 4. Reductionism, Holism, and Consumerism: The Patient in Contemporary Medicine -- PART II. REDUCTIONIST MEDICINE AND THE DISEASE BURDEN -- 5. After the Therapeutic Revolution: The Return to Prevention in Medical Policy and Practice -- 6. Digitized Health Promotion: Risk and Personal Responsibility for Health and Illness in the Web 2.0 Era -- 7. The Global Threat of (Re)emerging Diseases: Contesting the Adequacy of Biomedical Discourse and Practice -- 8. Replacing the Official View of Addiction -- PART III. THE NEED FOR A MORE HOLISTIC ETHICAL DISCOURSE -- 9. Bioethics and Medicalization -- 10. The Dominion of Medicine: Bioethics, the Human Sciences, and the Humanities -- 11. In Search of an Ethical Frame for the Provision of Health -- Conclusion: Limits in the Interest of Healing -- About the Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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