Publicado por Society for Values in Higher Education and University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1989
Librería: Cat's Cradle Books, Archdale, NC, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Light edge rubbing. Light handling wear to wrappers. ; Contents: Norman, The pleasures of the text. Carter and McCullough, Introduction. Diekema, Metaphors, medicine, and morals. Maher, Burnout: metaphors of destruction and purgation. Ross, The militarization of disease: do we really want a war on AIDS? Creevy, John Donne's meditations upon the magnitude of disease. Landon, Suffering over time: six varieties of pain. Reich, Speaking of suffering: a moral account of compassion. McCullough, The abstract character and transforming power of medical language. Donnelly, Righting the medical record: transforming chronicle into story. Charon, Doctor-patient/reader-writer: learning to find the text. Carter, Metaphors in the physician-patient relationship. Lang 1984: newspeak, technology, and the death of language. Folse, What does quantum theory tell us about the world? ; 9.0" tall; 205 pages. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued.