Medical Humanities : An Introduction (Paperback)

Part I. History and Medicine: 1. The doctor-patient relationship Thomas Cole and Benjamin Saxton; 2. Constructing disease Thomas Cole and Benjamin Saxton; 3. Educating doctors Thomas Cole and Benjamin Saxton; 4. Technology and medicine Thomas Cole and Benjamin Saxton; 5. The health of populations Thomas Cole and Benjamin Saxton; 6. Death and dying Thomas Cole and Benjamin Saxton; Part II. Literature, the Arts, and Medicine: 7. Narratives of illness Ronald Carson; 8. Aging in film Thomas Cole and Benjamin Saxton; 9. Medicine and media Nathan Carlin; 10. Poetry and moral imagination Ronald Carson; 11. Doctor-writers Ronald Carson; 12. Studying medicine Ronald Carson; Part III. Philosophy and Medicine: 13. Ways of knowing Ronald Carson; 14. Goals of medicine Ronald Carson; 15. Health and disease Thomas Cole and Benjamin Saxton; 16. Moral philosophy and bioethics Ronald Carson; 17. Medicine and power Nathan Carlin; 18. Just health care Ronald Carson; Part IV. Religion and Medicine: 19. World religions for medical humanities Nathan Carlin; 20. Religion and health Nathan Carlin; 21. Religion and reality Nathan Carlin; 22. Religion and bioethics Nathan Carlin; 23. Suffering and hope Nathan Carlin; Contributions to chapters William Howze.