Modern medicine is a powerful institution. With the help of highly
developed drugs and surgical techniques, it promises to relieve
suffering, improve the quality of life and extend the life-span.
Conversely, it is expensive for the governments, insurance
companies and individuals who pay for it and sometimes appears to
be insensitive to the needs of those for whom it provides. And
while recent restructuring of health care delivery services has
provided medical practitioners with new challenges, there has been
very little consideration of the range of pressures that they now
face.
"Challenging Medicine" offers a lively re-appraisal of the current
changes to the health service and analyses their effects on the
status and practice of health professionals. It also provides
original debate on the challenges posed from within medicine from
nurses and managers and alternative practitioners, and from outside
by self-help groups, the women's movement and the media.
Edited and written by experienced medical sociologists,
"Challenging Medicine "will continue to provide a text for medical
sociology students and for health care professionals in training
and in practice.
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