Doctors and Patients: History, Representation, Communication from Antiquity to the Present (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780988986596)

For the first time, a book considers the doctor/patient relationship in the long period and from a broad geographical perspective. Historians, anthropologists and doctors reflect on the factors that, from the Classical age until the present, have altered the care relationship and the power relations embedded within it. The book also highlights that communication and narration, understood as constitutive aspects of care, are the elements which link the past to the present. From the encounter between religion and medicine to the centuries-long struggle between doctors and patients in defence of their respective positions, from medical dramas to efforts to humanize medicine, the book describes the doctor/patient relationship in all its cultural, transnational and transtemporal dimensions.

Author: Maria Malatesta
ISBN-10: 0988986590
ISBN-13: 9780988986596
Publisher: University of California Medical Humanities P
Language: English
Published: 10/30/2015
Pages: 270
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d