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Confessions of a Medicine Man: An Essay in Popular Philosophy (Bradford Books) by Alfred I. Tauber is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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"My mission is to analyze medicines ethical structure. I do so as both a physician and a philosopher. Of my two voices, it is the latter that is informed by the former.... As a physician I have sought professional solutions to the frustrations of fighting a medical system that has become increasingly hostile to my standards of care for my patients; as a philosopher I will explore here the ethical issues I believe are the root of our predicament."-- from the introductionIn Confessions of a Medicine Man, Alfred Tauber probes the ethical structure of contemporary medicine in an argument accessible to lay readers, healthcare professionals, and ethicists alike. Through personal anecdote, historical narrative, and philosophical discussion, Tauber composes a moral portrait of the doctor-patient relationship. In a time when discussion has focused on market forces, he seeks to show how our basic conceptions of health, the body, and most fundamentally our very notion of selfhood frame our ex
Who reads Confessions of a Medicine Man: An Essay in Popular Philosophy (Bradford Books)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Alfred I. Tauber
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780262284691
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Medical, Western
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
