Confessions of a medicine man

In 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 experience of illness. Arguing against an ethics based on a presumed autonomy, Tauber presents a relational ethic that orients medical science and a voracious industry back to their primary moral responsibility: the empathetic response to the call of the ill.

First sentence: Twenty-five years ago medicine was approaching the cusp of what we now call "the health care crisis."

Year

1999

Language

English

Publisher

The MIT Press

Editions

2

Pages

179

ISBN

9780262700726

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