Medical Humanities Companion Volume 4 1st Edition by Jill Gordon 9781040192009 1040192009

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ISBN 10: 1040192009
ISBN 13: 9781040192009 
Author: Jill Gordon

This fourth volume in the Companion to Medical Humanities series contemplates the challenge of the prognosis, of looking ahead, wondering what will happen, and attempting to make sense of life and death.

Medical Humanities Companion Volume 4 1st Table of contents:

1. Narratives

• Rachel: 15 Years Old
• Jake: 32 Years Old
• Liz: 40 Years Old
• Jen and Geoff

2. A Piece of My Skin: A Physician Facing His Future

• I
• II
• III

3. Prognosis as Process

• Introduction
• Should Physicians Prognosticate?
• Prognosis-as-Lived
• Lived Experience and Biological Processes
• From Population to Individual
• Placebo as Prognosis
• Past and Future
• References

4. Prognosis, Time and Commitment

• Time
• The World
• Experience
• Being and Time – Martin Heidegger
• Time and Otherwise Than Being – Emmanuel Levinas
• When the Future Overrules the Present
• The Biopsychosocial Perspective – Holistic Prognosis
• Personal Prognosis
• When Time Stops
• When Life Ends
• The Stories
  • Rachel
  • Jake
  • Liz
  • Jen and Geoff
• The Consultation – Determination and Openness
• References

5. Acute and Chronic

• References

6. Becoming

• What Happens Next? Being Able and Being Unable
• Becoming and Being: Change, Disruption and Choice
  • Change
  • Disruption
  • Choice and Becoming
• ‘Let Us Not Waste Our Time Grizzling’: Flourishing in Becoming
• References

7. Prognosis or Prophecy?

• Hope
• Prognosis
• Prophecy
• Superstition
• Why It Matters
• References

8. First Do No Harm

• Medicalisation Revisited
  • Ivan Illich and Medical Imperialism
  • Petr Skrabanek and Healthism
  • Medicalisation Today
• Instrumental Reason
• Medical Ethics Doing Harm
• Individualism Versus Autonomy
• Ethicalisation of Research
• Concluding Remarks
• References

9. Technology, Ageing and Death

• Prognosis: Ageing, Technology and Death
• Young and Old
• Technological Activism
• Selling Sickness
• Therapeutic Burden
• A Fair Innings
• Inevitability
• Finding Meaning
• References

10. Open Futures, Human Finitude

• Introduction
  • I – The Openness of the Future
  • II – Defying Our Finitude
  • III – The Idea of the Noumenal
  • IV – A Coda: Echoes in Music
• References

Postscript

• Postscript Stories
  • Rachel: 15 Years Old
    • Diary
  • Jake: 30 Years Old
    • Quality of Life: Additional Comments
  • Liz: 38 Years Old
    • Posted on Mumsnet
  • Jen and Geoff
    • Letter from Jane to Geoff’s Daughter Mary

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