Confessions of a medicine man
Subtitle: an essay in popular philosophy
By: Alfred I. Tauber.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Medical ethics; Medicine -- Philosophy; Physician and patient -- Moral and ethical aspects
Description: In Confessions of a Medicine Man, Alfred Tauber probes the ethical structure of contemporary medicine in an argument accessible to lay readers, healthcare professionals, and ethicists alike. Through personal anecdote, historical narrative, and philosophical discussion, Tauber composes a moral portrait of the doctor-patient relationship. In a time when discussion has focused on market forces, he seeks to show how our basic conceptions of health, the body, and most fundamentally our very notion of selfhood frame our experience of illness. Arguing against an ethics based on a presumed autonomy, Tauber presents a relational ethic that orients medical science and a voracious industry back to their primary moral responsibility: the empathetic response to the call of the ill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"A Bradford book."