Title: Confessions of a medicine man
Subtitle: an essay in popular philosophy
First published: 1999
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.
Subjects: Medicine, Moral and ethical aspects, Medical ethics, Moral and ethical aspects of Physician and patient, Physician and patient, Philosophy, Medicine, philosophy, Physician-Patient Relations, Medical Philosophy
LC classification: R724 .T38 1999