Robbie Davis-Floyd, Gloria St John

From Doctor to Healer

The Transformative Journey

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Why train for seven years in Western ways and then move to homoeopathy and Chinese medicine? This book traces the transformational journeys of 40 American physicians who have made this move, outlining the basic models of American health care - technocratic, humanistic and holistic - on the way.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 148mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9780813525204
• ISBN-10: 0813525209
• Artikelnr.: 21526291

Autorenporträt

ROBBIE DAVIS-FLOYD is a research fellow at the University of Texas, Austin, and a medical anthropologist. She is the author of Birth as an American Rite of Passage and co-editor of Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Cyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots. GLORIA ST. JOHN has been involved in the business end of health care for 25 years and has served as executive director of the MetaPhysicians.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Introduction
Part I. The Technocratic Paradigm
1. The Technocratic Model of Medicine
2. Medical Training as Technocratic Initiation
Part II. The Humanistic and Holistic Paradigms
3. The Humanistic Model of Medicine
4. The Holistic Model of Medicine
Part III. The Paradigm Shift
5. Catalysts for Transformation
6. The Transformative Journey
Part IV. Living Holism
7. Practicing Holistic Medicine in a Technocratic Society
8. Visions for the Future of Medicine
Appendix
Notes
References
Index