The Goals of Medicine: The Forgotten Issues in Health Care Reform

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
The Goals of Medicine: Setting New Priorities	p. 1
The Goals and Ends of Medicine: How Are They to Be Defined?	p. 55
On Medicine and Other Means of Health Enhancement: Towards a Conceptual Framework	p. 69
What Kind of Values? a Historical Perspective on the Ends of Medicine	p. 88
Pain, Suffering, and the Goals of Medicine	p. 101
Symptoms or Persons? a Question for Setting the Goals of Medicine	p. 118
The Idea of Progress and the Goals of Medicine	p. 137
Old Age: Something to Look Forward To?	p. 152
Genetic Medicine: a New Copernican Turning Point?	p. 162
The Goals of Medicine and Public Health	p. 174
Rethinking Doctor Think: Reforming Medical Education by Nurturing Neglected Goals	p. 181
Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Goals of Medicine	p. 198
The Future of Medicine: an Analytical Framework	p. 207
On the Goals of Medicine: Reflections and Distinctions	p. 216
Negotiating the Goals of Medicine	p. 221
Contributors	p. 229
Index	p. 231
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