Medical humanities companion. Volume 4

Medical humanities companion. Volume 4 / by Jill Gordon, Jane MacNaughton and Carl Edvard Rudeback.

This fourth volume in the Companion to Medical Humanities series contemplates the challenge of the prognosis, of looking ahead, wondering what will happen, and attempting to make sense of life and death.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Gordon, Jill (Author), MacNaughton, Jane (Author), Rudeback, Carl Edvard (Author)
Corporate Author:	CRC Press
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, [2013]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Colectomy. Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784. Metaphor. Three-dimensional display systems. metaphor. three-dimensional. Colectomy Metaphor Three-dimensional display systems Mediterranean Region. Mediterranean Region
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Table of Contents:

Chapter 1 Narratives
chapter 2 A piece of my skin: a physician facing his future / Raimo Puustinen
chapter 3 Prognosis as process
chapter 4 Prognosis, time and commitment / Carl Edvard Rudebeck
chapter 5 Acute and chronic / John Saunders
chapter 6 Becoming / Jane Macnaughton
chapter 7 Prognosis or prophecy? / Jill Gordon
chapter 8 First do no harm
chapter 9 Technology, ageing and death / Iona Heath
chapter 10 Open futures, human finitude / Martyn Evans.