Humane Medicine (Paperback)

1. Confronting the present: confronting the future; 2. The clinical process: a Popperean analysis; 3. Science and the epistemology of clinical medicine; 4. The impact of authority and medical research; 5. Probability: master or servant; 6. Autonomy and a calculus; 7. Ethics and the definition of professionalism; 8. The bioethics committee; 9. Autonomy, logic, hermeneutics and informed consent; 10. Text, context and the medical history; 11. Towards a new medicine; 12. A summary.