TY - BOOK ID - 80837254 TI - To Fix or To Heal : Patient Care, Public Health, and the Limits of Biomedicine AU - Davis, Joseph E. AU - Gonzalez, Ana Marta PY - 2016 SN - 9781479884155 1479884154 9781479878246 1479878243 9781479809585 1479809586 PB - New York, NY : New York University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Public health KW - Bioethics. KW - Biology KW - Biomedical ethics KW - Life sciences KW - Life sciences ethics KW - Science KW - Moral and ethical aspects. KW - Moral and ethical aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80837254 AB - Do doctors fix patients? Or do they heal them? For all of modern medicine's many successes, discontent with the quality of patient care has combined with a host of new developments, from aging populations to the resurgence of infectious diseases, which challenge medicine's overreliance on narrowly mechanistic and technical methods of explanation and intervention, or 'fixing' patients. The need for a better balance, for more humane 'healing' rationales and practices that attend to the social and environmental aspects of health and illness and the experiencing person, is more urgent than ever. Yet, in public health and bioethics, the fields best positioned to offer countervailing values and orientations, the dominant approaches largely extend and reinforce the reductionism and individualism of biomedicine. ER -