Medicine, Health and Being Human

preview-18
  • Medicine, Health and Being Human Book Detail

  • Author : Lesa Scholl
  • Release Date : 2018-05-11
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Genre : Social Science
  • Pages : 450
  • ISBN 13 : 1351402137
  • File Size : 61,61 MB

Medicine, Health and Being Human by Lesa Scholl PDF Summary

Book Description: Medicine, Health and Being Human begins a conversation to explore how the medical has defined us: that is, the ways in which perspectives of medicine and health have affected cultural understandings of what it means to be human. With chapters that span from the early modern period through to the contemporary world, and are drawn from a range of disciplines, this volume holds that incremental historical and cultural influences have brought about an understanding of humanity in which the medical is ingrained, consciously or unconsciously, usually as a mode of legitimisation. Divided into three parts, the book follows a narrative path from the integrity of the human soul, through to the integrity of the material human body, then finally brought together through engaging with end-of-life responses. Part 1 examines the move from spirituality to psychiatry in terms of the way medical science has influenced cultural understandings of the mind. Part 2 interrogates the role that medicine has played in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in constructing and deconstructing the self and other, including the fusion of visual objectivity and the scientific gaze in constructing perceptions of humanity. Part 3 looks at the limits of medicine when the integrity of one body breaks down. It contends with the ultimate question of the extent to which humanity is confined within the integrity of the human body, and how medicine and the humanities work together toward responding to the finality of death. This is a valuable contribution for all those interested in the medical humanities, history of medicine, history of ideas and the social approaches to health and illness.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Medicine, Health and Being Human books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Medicine, Health and Being Human

Medicine, Health and Being Human

File Size : 34,34 MB
Total View : 7270 Views
DOWNLOAD

Medicine, Health and Being Human begins a conversation to explore how the medical has defined us: that is, the ways in which perspectives of medicine and health

On Being Human

On Being Human

File Size : 5,5 MB
Total View : 9582 Views
DOWNLOAD

À première vue, l'humanisme occidental, le bouddhisme japonais et la science moderne ont si peu en commun que l'idée même de rechercher un terrain d'entente

Deep Medicine

Deep Medicine

File Size : 63,63 MB
Total View : 4417 Views
DOWNLOAD

A Science Friday pick for book of the year, 2019 One of America's top doctors reveals how AI will empower physicians and revolutionize patient care Medicine has

To Err Is Human

To Err Is Human

File Size : 72,72 MB
Total View : 8584 Views
DOWNLOAD

Experts estimate that as many as 98,000 people die in any given year from medical errors that occur in hospitals. That's more than die from motor vehicle accide

On Being Human

On Being Human

File Size : 28,28 MB
Total View : 4038 Views
DOWNLOAD

"Kagan ponders a series of important nodes of debate while challenging us to examine what we know and why we know it. Most critically he presents an elegant arg