Doctors Serving People : : Restoring Humanism to Medicine through Student Community Service / / Edward J Eckenfels.
Today's physicians are medical scientists, drilled in the basics of physiology, anatomy, genetics, and chemistry. They learn how to crunch data, interpret scans, and see the human form as a set of separate organs and systems in some stage of disease. Missing from their training is a holistic po...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2008] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Humanism in the Time of Technocracy
- Chapter 1. The Emergence of the Rush Community Service Initiatives Program
- Chapter 2. Clinics Serving the Poor and Homeless
- Chapter 3. The New Faces of AIDS
- Chapter 4. Community-Based Grassroots Programs
- Chapter 5. The Community Today, Tomorrow the World
- Chapter 6. Looking for Meaning
- Chapter 7. Empirical Estimates of Patients and Clients Served
- Chapter 8. The Learning and Development of the Students
- Chapter 9. Nurturing Idealism, Advancing Humanism, and Planning Reform
- Chapter 10. A Personal Reflection: The Staying Power of the Call of Service
- Appendix A. Sources of Funding for RCSIP
- Appendix B. Guidelines for Maintaining Safety and Security
- Appendix C. Publications and Presentations of RCSIP Participants
- Appendix D. The Social Medicine, Community Health, and Human Rights Curriculum
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index