| Enigma of Health: The Art of Healing in a Scientific Age Contributor(s): Gadamer, Hans-Georg (Author), Gaiger, Jason (Translator), Walker, Nicholas (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0804726922 ISBN-13: 9780804726924 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $23.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1996 Annotation: " This is an extraordinarily thoughtful and insightful analysis of major contemporary problems dealing with the physician-patient relationship and the attitudes of society toward health, illness, and death. I know of no work that attempts to do what Gadamer does here. The book will serve educators in the humanities-- especially those in philosophy, psychology, and sociology-- as well as many persons in the health professions. I would be pleased if its message were absorbed by every student and practitioner of medicine." -- Victor Vaughan, M.D., Stanford University School of Medicine |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy - Medical |
| Dewey: 610 |
| LCCN: 95074982 |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 6.06" W x 8.93" (0.66 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The book brings together thirteen essays presented to medical and psychiatric societies, mainly during the 1970's and 1980's. In these essays, Gadamer justifies the reasons for a philosophical interest in health and medicine, and a corresponding need for health practitioners to enter into a dialogue with philosophy. |