The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine, 2nd ed.

Author(s) Eric Cassell
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year 2004
Description

A critique of the approach of modern medicine. Drawing on a number of patient narratives, the author writes that the goal of medicine must be to treat an individual's suffering, and not just the disease.


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