00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000002716 10004/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10003/MKRI-P/XI-2008 20221012025710 10003/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10004/MKRI-P/XI-2008 0010-0520002716 221012################|##########|#eng## 978 1 84472 052 eng 174.957 174.957 DOW b Downie , Robin S. Bioethics and the Humanities : Attitudes and Perceptions Oxon : John Wiley & Sons, 2007 188 : xii, 188p.; 24 cm. ; 24 cm. Indeks : p.185 - 188 This book rattles the medical cage by offering a critique of certain aspects of medical practice and research. For example, the idea that patient status or the doctor/patient relationship can be understood via quantitative scales is shown both to rest on a misunderstanding of numbers, and to create a distoreted perception of human beings. It offers an alternative way of understanding the qualitative research producing this distortion, an understanding akin to the sort we acquire from good literature. The central aim of this book is to expose the half-truths of contemporary medicine and to celebrate the Greek beliaf that Apollo was god of both medicine and the arts. Bioethics Humanities Macnaughton, Jane 10003/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10004/MKRI-P/XI-2008