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To Fix or to Heal : Patient Care, Public Health, and the Limits of Biomedicine by Joseph E. Davis; Ana Marta Gonzalez is a law available to read on EtoBox.

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Do doctors fix patients? Or do they heal them? For all of modern medicine’s many successes, discontent with the quality of patient care has combined with a host of new developments, from aging populations to the resurgence of infectious diseases, which challenge medicine’s overreliance on narrowly mechanistic and technical methods of explanation and intervention, or “fixing’ patients. The need for a better balance, for more humane “healing” rationales and practices that attend to the social and

Who reads To Fix or to Heal : Patient Care, Public Health, and the Limits of Biomedicine?

Author

Joseph E. Davis; Ana Marta Gonzalez

Publisher

NYU Press; New York University Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781479809585

Category

law

Subjects

Medical, Philosophy, Science

Updated

2026-03-25