Medical Choices, Medical Chances: How Patients, Families, and Physicians Can Cope with Uncertainty

Bursztajn, Harold J.; Brodsky, Archie; Feinbloom, Richard I.; Hamm, Robert M.

ISBN 10: 0415902924 / ISBN 13: 9780415902922

Edité par Routledge, New York, 1990

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Paperback. Covers and spine are lightly scored and edge worn. Front upper leading corner is creased. Previous owner's name penned on FEP. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. Binding is sound. HJW.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Medical Choices, Medical Chances: How Patients, Families, and Physicians Can Cope with Uncertainty
• Éditeur: Routledge, New York
• Date de parution: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0415902924
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780415902922
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: Good
• Type de livre: Used
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Psychiatry/Psychology

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Synopsis

Much of the frustration and disappointment in medical practice, even the extreme cases where an adversarial relationship arises, grow out of a failure on the part of the patient and/or the doctor to acknowledge uncertainty. "Medical Choices, Medical Chances" is the result of an unusual collaborative effort by a group of health professionals. It grew out of the wake of the holistic health movement, the consumer movement in medicine, and the patient rights movement. Many of these issues seemed to centre on the notion of uncertainty. In "Medical Choices, Medical Chances", medical decision-making is seen as a shared responsibility between doctor and patient, aimed at helping the patient get well and stay well. The authors show how most medical practice is based on what they call the mechanistic paradigm, the model being hard science and the aim to find-the-cause-and-cure-it. They demonstrate how contemporary scientific thought encourages the mutual acknowledgement of uncertainty and recognizes values and feelings to be an inescapable concern of science. The insight this book provides into how decisions are made and better ways of making them will help the reader, not only in medical matters, but in many other areas of human concern.

Biographie de l'auteur

Dr. Bursztajn is co-director of the Program in Psychiatry and the Law and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, cares for patients as a primary care physician and psychoanalytically informed psychiatrist and consults as a forensic psychiatrist nationally. Richard I. Feinbloom, M.D. is a family practitioner with the Permanente Medical Group of Northern California. His most recent book is Pregnancy, Birth, and The Early Months. The Thinking Woman's Guide. Robert M. Hamm, Ph.D., is a cognitive psychologist specializing in judgment and decision making in medicine. He works training family physicians in the medical school at the University of Oklahoma.Archie Brodsky, a Research Associate at Harvard Medical School and Brandeis University, is coauthor of numerous books in psychology and health care.