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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"medical philosophy"”.
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The cook as physician: medical philosophy, nutrition, and diet in England, 1450-1650
… reflects the influence of ancient and medieval medical philosophy on the practices of the upper-class cook. Much of the literature treating the subject of diet in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century England has concentrated upon the role that Church doctrine and seasonality played in determining …
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Passages : a hospice for New York City
… that the ability to treat disease has altered medical philosophy from a platform of maintaining health to one of preventing death at almost any cost. It is into this environment that the concept of hospice care has emerged as an alternative way of thinking about death and dying, a reaction to …
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The limits of choice : how community midwives negotiate choice in and of their practice
… In Leaflet 1 and its host website, a dominant medical discourse was identified. The power/knowledge of this discourse could be traced to a medical philosophy that believed that pregnancy and birth are risk laden activities, that women’s bodies are likely to fail and therefore require medical …
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The meaning of illness : a phenomenological approach to the physician/patient relationship.
It is my purpose in this thesis to explore the "reality" of illness, using philosophical phenomenology as a guide. In particular, I am concerned to show that the experience of illness, rather than representing a shared "reality" between physician and patient, represents in effect two quite distinct …
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Critical Interventions in the Medical Humanities
… novel critical theoretical interventions in the medical humanities. The first uses Benjamin’s critical theory of art in the age of its technological reproducibility to reveal that the evidence-based biomedical model’s primary function is not to cure patients, but to prescribe politics. The …