Afflicted: How Vulnerability Can Heal Medical Education and Practice by Nicole M. Piemonte Requirements: .ePUB, .PDF reader, 1.9 MBOverview: How medical education and practice can move beyond a narrow focus on biological intervention to recognize the lived experiences of illness, suffering, and death. In Afflicted, Nicole Piemonte examines the preoccupation in medicine with cure over […]
Death and Dying (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge) by Nicole Piemonte, Shawn AbreuRequirements: .ePUB reader, 1.1 MBOverview: An examination of the contemporary medicalization of death and dying that calls us to acknowledge instead death’s existential and emotional realities. Death is a natural, inevitable, and deeply human process, and yet Western medicine tends to view it […]
Afflicted: How Vulnerability Can Heal Medical Education and Practice by Nicole M. Piemonte Requirements: .ePUB Reader | 447 kbOverview: In Afflicted, Nicole Piemonte examines the preoccupation in medicine with cure over care, arguing that the traditional focus on biological intervention keeps medicine from addressing the complex realities of patient suffering. Although many have pointed to […]