Healer''s Tale - Transforming Medicine and Culture

This is an enquiry into the tremendous changes that have transformed medicine in the past half-century. It examines how "runaway" technology has thrown up ethical questions in medicine.

About the author

Sharon R. Kaufman is associate professor of anthropology and research medical anthropologist at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the author of The Ageless Self: Sources of Meaning in Late Life, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press.

Summary

This is an enquiry into the tremendous changes that have transformed medicine in the past half-century. It examines how "runaway" technology has thrown up ethical questions in medicine.

Product details

• Authors: Sharon R Kaufman, Sharon R. Kaufman
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.12.1994
• EAN: 9780299135546
• ISBN: 978-0-299-13554-6
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Life Course Studies; Life course studies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries