The Culture of biomedicine
By: D. Heyward Brock, editor, Ann Harward, assistant editor.
Contributors: Brock, D. Heyward 1941-; Harward, Ann.
Series: Studies in science and culture ;; v. 1
Publisher: University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Newark; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Medicine -- Philosophy.; Medicine and the humanities.; Social medicine.; Medical anthropology.; Philosophy, Medical.; Medicine in literature.; Physician-patient relations.; Culture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Science and humanities / Michael S. Gregory; value: The goals of medicine and society / David C. Thomasma; value: The phenomenon of medicine / Richard M. Zaner; value: Scientific views of human nature / James E. Trosko; value: The sociobiology of human sexuality / Michael Ruse; value: Bioethics and the human prospect / Van Rensselaer Potter; value: Patients in particular / W.J. Coggins and Peter Graham; value: Health, art, and drama / Dennis Carlson; value: "How Annandale went out" / Peter Graham; value: Pathos and pathology / Edmund L. Erde; value: Humpty Dumpty, a literary challenge to the concept of personality integration / Kathryn Allen Rabuzzi.