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1 online resource (219 pages) : illustrations |
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text rdacontent |
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computer rdamedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The ethos medical practice in age of computerized technology -- On the nature of medical knowledge : evidenced based medicine in postmodern America -- The culture of medical practice : corporate computerization versus the face of the other -- Practical and ethical concerns regarding aspects of quality improvement measures -- The uneven encounter between postmodern expectations & corporate control of medical practice -- Power and trust in the patient-physician relationship : postmodern values and the patient-centered medical home -- Medical education in postmodern America : a physician-in-training is a consumer too -- Medical professionalism : what does altruism have to do with it? -- The postmodern physician ethos and morale -- Bioethics in postmodern America -- Ethical medicine, performativity, and the Silicon cage -- Medical care embedded in American culture : repositioning the medical ethos for the 21st century -- Epilogue : ethos of medicine in postmodern America. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Health -- Social aspects -- United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Eiser, Arnold R. Ethos of medicine in postmodern America : philosophical, cultural, and social considerations. Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2014] 9780739181805 (DNLM)101617155 (DLC)17889703 |
| ISBN |
9780739181805 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780739181812 (electronic bk.) |
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