Doctors and Doctrines
Doctors and Doctrines

Author: Bernard R. Blishen

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1969-12-15

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1442633832

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There has been controversy for several years now in Canada over the various developments in insurance for medical care. The Canadian Medical Association is of course concerned with protecting the profession as well as the public: those who believe in a government-sponsored medicare plan claim that the medical profession’s reaction is based on self-interest. The debate was intensified by the 1962 medicare dispute in Saskatchewan, the publication in 1964 of the first two volumes of the Report of the Royal Commission on Health Services, and the more recent disagreement between the federal and provincial governments over the issue. Professor Blishen here examines the position of the medical profession in this debate as part of an ideological reaction to a rapidly changing society. The growth of scientific knowledge, demographic change, and shifting social values all have an impact on the medical profession: the doctors’ dilemma must be seen against this background. The focus of this analysis throughout is the physician’s role: the examples are Canadian but the ideologies and situations involved are relevant to all countries with a similar medical development.

The Silent World of Doctor and Patient
The Silent World of Doctor and Patient

Author: Jay Katz

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2002-11

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9780801857805

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Historically, the doctor-patient relationship has been based on a one-way trust--despite recent judicial attempts to give patients a greater voice. Seeing a growing need for more honest and complete communication between physician and patient, Dr. Jay Katz advocates a new, informed dialogue that respects the rights and needs of both sides. A new Preface outlines changes since the book's publication in 1984.

An Exposition of the Principles of the New Medical Doctrine
An Exposition of the Principles of the New Medical Doctrine

Author: Jean Martin Auguste Goupil

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-10-03

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9781396590405

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Excerpt from An Exposition of the Principles of the New Medical Doctrine: With an Analysis of the Theses Sustained on Its Different Parts When M. Broussais commenced promulgating his Opin ions, they were soon published and supported in theses, defended before the faculty of Medicine of Paris. These dissertations have not a little contributed to propagate a doctrine which is that of all physicians desirous of keeping pace with the march of science. Many amongst them have been sought for with eagerness, and contain many precious facts and discussions full of interest, which are not met with elsewhere. These theses being very rare, and most physicians not being able to consult the collections of the faculties, I have thought that it would be useful to present an analysis of them, as Robert did on a former occasion for the doctrine of the celebrated Bordeu; persuaded more over, that we could not draw from a purer source for the purpose of exposing the principles of a doctrine which has gained to its author so just a celebrity, and to his works such great success. Ihave frequently consulted also other writings, and Lhave never neglected to support the princi ples which I have presented, with the very words of the creator of Physiological medicine - Instructed for a long time in his school, attached during two years to the hospital of the Val de Grace, I am certain of never having altered, as has been too often done, the opinions which he professes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.