TY - BOOK ID - 30662887 TI - The word as scalpel PY - 2002 SN - 0198023642 1417587571 1280481986 9786610481989 1423735331 0195348869 1602564671 9781417587575 9781423735335 0195072324 9780195149296 0195149297 9780195072327 9781602564671 9781280481987 9780198023647 9780195348866 0197743501 0190287608 PB - New York Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Social medicine KW - Sociology KW - History. KW - Medical care KW - Medical sociology KW - Medicine KW - Medicine, Social KW - Social aspects KW - Public health KW - Public welfare KW - Medical ethics KW - Medical sociologists KW - History KW - Sociologie de la santé KW - Sociologues KW - Histoire. KW - Et la médecine UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30662887 AB - A doctor can damage a patient as much with a misplaced word as with a slip of the scalpel. In this statement, from Lawrence J. Henderson, a famous physician whose name is part of the basic science of medicine, epitomizes the central theme of The Word as Scalpel. If words, the main substance of human relations, are so potent for harm, how equally powerful they can be to help if used with disciplined knowledge and understanding. Nowhere does this simple truth apply more certainly than in the behavior of a physician. Medical Sociology studies the full social context of health and disease, the int ER -