TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wolf,Stewart
TI  - Educating doctors: crisis in medical education, research & practice 
SN  - 9781351291668
AV  - RA418.3.U6 W65 2017eb
U1  - 362.1/0973 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - Social medicine
KW  - United States
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Medical education
KW  - Research
KW  - Holistic medicine
KW  - Philosophy, Medical
KW  - Médecine
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - Enseignement médical
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Recherche
KW  - Médecine holistique
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Social Security
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Social Services & Welfare
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 31, 2018); Includes bibliographical references and indexes; 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
N2  - 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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