Public Expectations and Physicians' Responsibilities: Voices of Medical Humanities

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ISBN: 9781857756425 | 1857756428
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Copyright: 2/1/2005

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Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland, Canada. Addresses the concerns of healthcare professionals and students regarding the provision of healthcare. Draws heavily on literary voices, the visual arts, and popular culture to chart the changes in public perception in recent years. Can serve as a study for the medical humanities and professionalism. Softcover.

Foreword

Preface and acknowledgements

vii

Voices from medical humanities: an introduction

(14)

Medical humanities

(2)

Physician roles and the organisation of this book

(2)

`Humanities are the hormones'

(1)

Tensions in medical education

(2)

Notes on resources

(8)

Part 1: Foundation roles

(104)

Doctors: how professional are they seen to be?

(30)

What is professionalism? Diverse views

(1)

Changing images, perceptions and expectations

(15)

Patients examine their own practitioners

(3)

Professional responses

(2)

The next chapters

(9)

Communication and the art of medicine

(12)

Growing communication difficulties

(5)

Listening to patients

(2)

Medical responses

(5)

Physician or healer?

(16)

Healers: a diversity of images

(2)

Holism and reductionism

(3)

Some characteristics of healing

(2)

Places of healing

(1)

Responses

(8)

Role as a scientist: questions about integrity

(10)

From heroic images to `experimenting' on patients

(3)

Technology

(2)

Scientific fraud

(1)

Images and responses

(3)

Physician as health advocate: following or leading?

(10)

Introduction

(1)

The environment and health

(2)

The domestic environment

(1)

Physician responsibilities: following or leading?

(6)

A team member

(6)

Teams and hierarchies

(1)

Should patients be members of the team?

(1)

Barriers to team care

(4)

Being a person

101

(18)

Clinical detachment

102

(2)

Medical education creates detachment

104

(3)

A medical response

107

(3)

Reflections: know thyself

110

(2)

Appendix: `The Woody Allen Report on Physicians'

112

(7)

Part 2: Physician as clinical decision maker: public voices, metaphors and stereotypes

119

(38)

Clinical decisions

121

(12)

The good doctor and diagnostic skills

121

(2)

Metaphors and clinical decision making: war on disease

123

(4)

Summary comments

127

(6)

Caged, controlled, classified

133

(14)

Caged by neurological disease

134

(3)

Trapped by voyeurism and the stigma of society

137

(1)

Gender and health: what to make of stereotypes?

138

(9)

Physicians' approaches to disease

147

(10)

The heart as a pump and cultural symbol

147

(3)

Disease concepts and dichotomies

150

(7)

Epilogue: Physician and patient responsibilities

157

(4)

Index

161

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Public Expectations and Physicians' Responsibilities: Voices of Medical Humanities

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