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To Fix or To Heal - Patient Care, Public Health, and the Limits of Biomedicine (Hardcover)
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To Fix or To Heal - Patient Care, Public Health, and the Limits of Biomedicine (Hardcover)
Series: Biopolitics
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Do doctors fix patients? Or do they heal them? For all of modern
medicine's many successes, discontent with the quality of patient
care has combined with a host of new developments, from aging
populations to the resurgence of infectious diseases, which
challenge medicine's overreliance on narrowly mechanistic and
technical methods of explanation and intervention, or "fixing'
patients. The need for a better balance, for more humane "healing"
rationales and practices that attend to the social and
environmental aspects of health and illness and the experiencing
person, is more urgent than ever. Yet, in public health and
bioethics, the fields best positioned to offer countervailing
values and orientations, the dominant approaches largely extend and
reinforce the reductionism and individualism of biomedicine. The
collected essays in To Fix or To Heal do more than document the
persistence of reductionist approaches and the attendant extension
of medicalization to more and more aspects of our lives. The
contributors also shed valuable light on why reductionism has
persisted and why more holistic models, incorporating social and
environmental factors, have gained so little traction. The
contributors examine the moral appeal of reductionism, the larger
rationalist dream of technological mastery, the growing valuation
of health, and the enshrining of individual responsibility as the
seemingly non-coercive means of intervention and control. This
paradigm-challenging volume advances new lines of criticism of our
dominant medical regime, even while proposing ways of bringing
medical practice, bioethics, and public health more closely into
line with their original goals. Precisely because of the centrality
of the biomedical approach to our society, the contributors argue,
challenging the reductionist model and its ever-widening effects is
perhaps the best way to press for a much-needed renewal of our
ethical and political discourse.
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