Integrity and Personhood Looking at Patients from a Bio/Psycho/Social Perspective /

• Main Author: Loewy, Roberta Springer (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2002.
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Ethics.; Medicine > Philosophy.; Neurosurgery.; Medical research.; Quality of life.; Quality of Life Research.; Philosophy of Medicine.

This text examines the dominant ways of looking at patient/clinician relationships in healthcare. By challenging these dominant views the author can explore presuppositions that are defective. She further explains how they come to be so readily and uncritically held and reinforced; and, why their im...