Educating doctors : crisis in medical education, research & practice / Stewart Wolf.

By:

Wolf, Stewart, 1914- [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781351291668
1351291661

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

DDC classification:

362.1/0973 23

LOC classification:

RA418.3.U6 W65 2017eb

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

1. Medical Education -- 2. The Physician in Practice -- 3. Medicine in Relation to Society -- 4. Research -- 5. Financing Medical Research -- 6. Determinants of Health and Disease -- 7. From Information to Understanding: The Challenge for the Library -- 8. The Evaluation of Therapy in Disease -- 9. Biological Integration and Synthesis.

Summary: Stewart Wolf here critiques the medical establishment and the way those concerned with its various responsibilities discharge them. He puts medicine's responsibilities to society into historical perspective, relating it to social changes. He begins with the ways medical candidates are selected. He continues with commentary on currently designed teaching and learning, the qualities required in a physician and in a medical scientist, and the nature and challenges of disease and what can be done about them. Finally, Wolf provides a useful way of thinking about human biology, to better understand why people become sick or well and what people have to contend with to stay well. Throughout he emphasizes the role of the brain in controlling behavior of all sorts, general and visceral.

Holdings ( 1 )
Title notes ( 5 )

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
eBook	e-Library	EBSCO Education		Available

Total holds: 0

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 31, 2018).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Stewart Wolf here critiques the medical establishment and the way those concerned with its various responsibilities discharge them. He puts medicine's responsibilities to society into historical perspective, relating it to social changes. He begins with the ways medical candidates are selected. He continues with commentary on currently designed teaching and learning, the qualities required in a physician and in a medical scientist, and the nature and challenges of disease and what can be done about them. Finally, Wolf provides a useful way of thinking about human biology, to better understand why people become sick or well and what people have to contend with to stay well. Throughout he emphasizes the role of the brain in controlling behavior of all sorts, general and visceral.

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