lundi 23 novembre 2015

Histoire de la relation médecins-patients

Doctors and Patients: History, Representations, Communication from the Antiquity to the Present 


Maria Malatesta (ed.)

San Francisco
University of California Medical Humanities Press
 2015


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.

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