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“abraham fuks”

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  • The Language of Medicine

    by Abraham Fuks ...
    Language exercises a powerful impact on medical care as the words that physicians use with patients have the power to heal or harm. The practice of medicine is shaped by the potent metaphors that are prevalent in clinical care, especially military metaphors and the words of war that bring with them unfortunate consequences for patients and physicians alike. Physicians who fight disease turn the ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Physicianship and the Rebirth of Medical Education

    by J. Donald Boudreau, Eric Cassell, Abraham Fuks ...
    The renewal of medical curricula generally arises from emerging pedagogies (e.g. problem-based learning), new technologies (e.g. high fidelity simulation), or prevailing sociocultural forces (e.g. complexity of health care delivery and team-based care). Approximately 15 years ago, a team of physicians and administrators sought to take this further: by considering the very nature of medical ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

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    How Culture and Experience Shape Our Lives

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    In this provocative, revelatory tour de force, Jesse Prinz reveals how the cultures we live in - not biology - determine how we think and feel. He examines all aspects of our behaviour, looking at everything from our intellects and emotions, to love and sex, morality and even madness. This book seeks to go beyond traditional debates of nature and nurture. He is not interested in finding universal ... Read more

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  • How Doctors Think

    Clinical Judgment and the Practice of Medicine

    by Kathryn Montgomery ...
    How Doctors Think defines the nature and importance of clinical judgment. Although physicians make use of science, this book argues that medicine is not itself a science but rather an interpretive practice that relies on clinical reasoning. A physician looks at the patient's history along with the presenting physical signs and symptoms and juxtaposes these with clinical experience and empirical ... Read more

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  • Care & Cure

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    by Jacob Stegenga ...
    The author of Medical Nihilism examines the philosophical complications and controversies underlying medicine.The philosophy of medicine has become a vibrant and complex intellectual landscape, and Care and Cure is the first extended attempt to map it. In pursuing the interdependent aims of caring and curing, medicine relies on concepts, theories, inferences, and policies that are often ... Read more

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  • Panic Attacks

    by Michele Bersani ...
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  • The Mirage of a Space between Nature and Nurture

    by Evelyn Fox Keller ...
    In this powerful critique, the esteemed historian and philosopher of science Evelyn Fox Keller addresses the nature-nurture debates, including the persistent disputes regarding the roles played by genes and the environment in determining individual traits and behavior. Keller is interested in both how an oppositional “versus” came to be inserted between nature and nurture, and how the distinction ... Read more

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  • Gut Feminism

    by Elizabeth A. Wilson ...
    Series series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
    In Gut Feminism Elizabeth A. Wilson urges feminists to rethink their resistance to biological and pharmaceutical data. Turning her attention to the gut and depression, she asks what conceptual and methodological innovations become possible when feminist theory isn’t so instinctively antibiological. She examines research on anti-depressants, placebos, transference, phantasy, eating disorders and ... Read more

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  • Healing Personal Psychology

    by Jasenn Zaejian ...
    The "mental health" professions are responsible for creating and maintaining a folie à deux or shared public delusion that their intention is to heal. On close inspection, we see that the primary function of "mental health" professionals is to serve as moral arbiters of human behavior. The legislature has granted clinical psychology and psychiatry the legal rights to define certain behaviors as ... Read more

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  • A History of Personality Psychology

    Theory, Science, and Research from Hellenism to the Twenty-First Century

    by Frank Dumont ...
    In this book Frank Dumont presents personality psychology with a fresh description of its current status as well as its prospects. Play, sex, cuisine, creativity, altruism, pets, grieving rituals, and other oft-neglected topics broaden the scope of this fascinating study. This tract is imbued with historical perspectives that reveal the continuity in the evolving science and research of this ... Read more

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  • The Myth of the Moral Brain

    The Limits of Moral Enhancement

    by Harris Wiseman ...
    Series series Basic Bioethics
    An argument that moral functioning is immeasurably complex, mediated by biology but not determined by it.Throughout history, humanity has been seen as being in need of improvement, most pressingly in need of moral improvement. Today, in what has been called the beginnings of “the golden age of neuroscience,” laboratory findings claim to offer insights into how the brain “does” morality, even ... Read more

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  • The End of Normal

    Identity in a Biocultural Era

    by Lennard Davis ...
    In an era when human lives are increasingly measured and weighed in relation to the medical and scientific, notions of what is “normal” have changed drastically. While it is no longer useful to think of a person’s particular race, gender, sexual orientation, or choice as “normal,” the concept continues to haunt us in other ways. In The End of Normal, Lennard J. Davis explores changing perceptions ... Read more

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