The ethos of medicine in postmodern America : : philosophical, cultural, and social considerations / / Arnold R. Eiser.

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Place / Publishing House:Lanham, Maryland : : Lexington Books,, [2014]
2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (219 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • The ethos medical practice in age of computerized technology
  • On the nature of medical knowledge : evidenced based medicine in postmodern America
  • The culture of medical practice : corporate computerization versus the face of the other
  • Practical and ethical concerns regarding aspects of quality improvement measures
  • The uneven encounter between postmodern expectations & corporate control of medical practice
  • Power and trust in the patient-physician relationship : postmodern values and the patient-centered medical home
  • Medical education in postmodern America : a physician-in-training is a consumer too
  • Medical professionalism : what does altruism have to do with it?
  • The postmodern physician ethos and morale
  • Bioethics in postmodern America
  • Ethical medicine, performativity, and the Silicon cage
  • Medical care embedded in American culture : repositioning the medical ethos for the 21st century
  • Epilogue : ethos of medicine in postmodern America.