Antonio Lanfranchi

Modern Myths and Medical Consumerism

The Asclepius Complex

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Modern Myths and Medical Consumerism is concerned with the loss of a sense of limit in technological medicine today, and the way in which the denial of death leads to an uncontrollable, consumeristic multiplication of needs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9780367408275
• ISBN-10: 0367408279
• Artikelnr.: 57999476

Autorenporträt

Antonio Karim Lanfranchi is Senior Cardiology Specialist at the University Hospital L. Sacco, Milan.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
PART I A metapsychology of the doctor's consciousness
1. The story of Asclepius
2. Alfred Ziegler's archetypal medicine
PART II Medicine and society in our time
1. Modern myths in medicine
2. Narcissus's mirror
3. The illusory nature of concretism
4. Considerations on courage
PART III Life hanging by a thread
1. Illness as an experience of the soul
2. The globalization of medicine: towards an ecological medicine