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" The end of modern medicine : "
Laurence Foss
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BL
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702605
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b524794
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| Main Entry
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Foss, Laurence
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The end of modern medicine : : biomedical science under a microscope /\ Laurence Foss
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| Publication Statement
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Albany :: State University of New York Press,, [2002]
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, ©2002
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xxi, 329 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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0791451291
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: 0791451305
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-321) and index
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| Contents
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Ch. 1. Medical ontology -- Ch. 2. The question never asked -- Ch. 3. The organic solution -- Ch. 4. The motive faculty of the soul -- Ch. 5. Pascal's question -- Ch. 6. The path not taken -- Ch. 7. Sciences of complexity -- Ch. 8. Post-cartesian thought world -- Ch. 9. National Institute of Warts and All -- Ch. 10. The ghost in the machine -- Ch. 11. Founding myth -- Ch. 12. The shadow of subjectivity -- Ch. 13. The anxious heart -- Ch. 14. Late night thoughts while listening to Mahler -- Ch. 15. Complementary medicine -- Ch. 16. For want of a vocabulary -- Ch. 17. The birth of psychobiology -- Ch. 18. Paradigm shift -- Ch. 19. The placebo meta-effect and infomedical science -- Ch. 20. Nature as self-referential and biocultural medicine -- Ch. 21. The metaphysical foundations of modern science -- Ch. 22. The primordial fireball, a work in progress? -- Ch. 23. Humanizing medical science: the systems loop -- Ch. 24. Subjectivity and the messengers of information
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Medical ethics
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Medicine-- Philosophy
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R723.F668 2002
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