Umfang:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 216 p)
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Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0813543169
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9780813543161
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9780813543154
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0813543150
Serie:
Critical issues in health and medicine
Inhalt:
Today's physicians are medical scientists, drilled in the basics of physiology, anatomy, genetics, and chemistry. They learn how to crunch data, interpret scans, and see the human form as a set of separate organs and systems in some stage of disease. Missing from their training is a holistic portrait of the patient as a person and as a member of a community. Yet a humanistic passion and desire to help people often are the attributes that compel a student toward a career in medicine. So what happens along the way to tarnish that idealism? Can a new approach to medical education make a differenc
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; Foreword by Joseph F. O'Donnell, MD; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Humanism in the Time of Technocracy; Chapter 1: The Emergence of the Rush Community Service Initiatives Program; Chapter 2: Clinics Serving the Poor and Homeless; Chapter 3: The New Faces of AIDS; Chapter 4: Community-Based Grassroots Programs; Chapter 5: The Community Today, Tomorrow the World; Chapter 6: Looking for Meaning; Chapter 7: Empirical Estimates of Patients and Clients Served; Chapter 8: The Learning and Development of the Students; Chapter 9: Nurturing Idealism, Advancing Humanism, and Planning Reform
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Chapter 10: A Personal Reflection: The Staying Power of the Call of ServiceAppendix A: Sources of Funding for RCSIP; Appendix B: Guidelines for Maintaining Safety and Security; Appendix C: Publications and Presentations of RCSIP Participants; Appendix D: The Social Medicine, Community Health, and Human Rights Curriculum; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780813543154
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Doctors Serving People : Restoring Humanism to Medicine through Student Community Service
Sprache:
Englisch
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