Medical Humanities Companion, Volume 4

Klappentext This fourth volume in the Companion to Medical Humanities series contemplates the challenge of the prognosis! of looking ahead! wondering what will happen! and attempting to make sense of life and death. Zusammenfassung This fourth volume in the Companion to Medical Humanities series contemplates the challenge of the prognosis, of looking ahead, wondering what will happen, and attempting to make sense of life and death. Inhaltsverzeichnis About the editors and authors. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Narratives. A piece of my skin. Prognosis as process. Prognosis! time and commitment. Acute and chronic. Becoming. Prognosis or Prophecy? First do no harm. Technology! ageing and death. Open futures! human finitude. Postscript.

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• Authors: Gordon, Dr. Jill Gordon, Dr. Jill Macnaughton Gordon, Jill Gordon, Jill Ed Gordon, Jill Macnaughton Gordon, Gordon Jill, Jane Macnaughton, Carl Edvard Rudeback, Carl Edvard Rudebeck
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2013
• EAN: 9781846195556
• ISBN: 978-1-84619-555-6
• No. of pages: 128
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; Medical research, MEDICAL / Research