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Author Foss, Laurence.

Title The end of modern medicine : biomedical science under a microscope / Laurence Foss
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 329 pages) : illustrations
Series SUNY series in constructive postmodern thought
SUNY series in constructive postmodern thought.
Contents Ch. 1. Medical ontology -- Ch. 2. The question never asked -- Ch. 3. The organic solution -- Ch. 4. The motive faculty of the soul -- Ch. 5. Pascal's question -- Ch. 6. The path not taken -- Ch. 7. Sciences of complexity -- Ch. 8. Post-cartesian thought world -- Ch. 9. National Institute of Warts and All -- Ch. 10. The ghost in the machine -- Ch. 11. Founding myth -- Ch. 12. The shadow of subjectivity -- Ch. 13. The anxious heart -- Ch. 14. Late night thoughts while listening to Mahler -- Ch. 15. Complementary medicine -- Ch. 16. For want of a vocabulary -- Ch. 17. The birth of psychobiology -- Ch. 18. Paradigm shift -- Ch. 19. The placebo meta-effect and infomedical science -- Ch. 20. Nature as self-referential and biocultural medicine -- Ch. 21. The metaphysical foundations of modern science -- Ch. 22. The primordial fireball, a work in progress? -- Ch. 23. Humanizing medical science: the systems loop -- Ch. 24. Subjectivity and the messengers of information
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-321) and index
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Subject Medicine -- Philosophy.
Medical ethics.
Medicine, Psychosomatic.
Ethics, Medical
Holistic Health
Philosophy, Medical
Psychosomatic Medicine
MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL -- Osteopathy.
MEDICAL.
MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference.
MEDICAL -- Essays.
MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism.
Medicine, Psychosomatic
Medical ethics
Medicine -- Philosophy
Medizin
Philosophie
Medicinsk filosofi.
Holistisk medicin.
Biomedicin.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2001031187
ISBN 0585450277
9780585450278
0791451291
9780791451298
0791451305
9780791451304
9780791489802
0791489809