Title: Society & medicine
Description: The November 1999 conference at the University of Pennsylvania focused on the interrelated themes of Fox's work, including the nature of medicine and medical research, the training and work of their practitioners, the interrelationships between medicine and the societies and cultures it is part of, and the moral and spiritual dimensions of the healing arts. The contributors are from medical and social sciences. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Subjects: Social medicine, Bioethics, Medicine, Philosophy, Medicine, philosophy, Cross-cultural studies, Cross-Cultural Comparison, Medical Philosophy