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Medicine, Metaphors and Metaphysics: An Interdisciplinary Analysis and Critique of Therapeutic Equivalence as a Health Policy - Couverture souple

Baxter, Susan

 
9783639705478: Medicine, Metaphors and Metaphysics: An Interdisciplinary Analysis and Critique of Therapeutic Equivalence as a Health Policy
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3639705475 ISBN 13 : 9783639705478
Editeur : Scholars' Press, 2014

Synopsis

Is there a point at which medical intervention becomes counter productive? This work is an examination of this concept, contending that as health policies increasing shift towards evidence-based and guideline-driven practice they risk losing sight of the complexities and ambiguities inherent to human physiology and patients' lives. Heuristics and cultural constructs ("more is better") are all too often confused with science - leading to expensive, ineffective health care. Using a single concept, therapeutic equivalence, this interdisciplinary analysis covers the trajectory of modern medicine and blends history, ethics, economics, politics, pharmacology, communications, medical sociology and clinical medicine. Of interest to clinicians, patients, public health/policy experts, educators and social scientists, this book is a reminder that no matter how advanced our technologies and biomedical interventions might become, medicine remains an art as well as a science.

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Éditeur
Scholars' Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3639705475
ISBN 13 
9783639705478
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
380
Coordonnées du fabricant
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