Sholom Glouberman

The Mechanical Patient

Finding a More Human Model of Health

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Produktbeschreibung

This book names the problem and prepares us to respond to the exaggerated place of the chemical mechanical model in our society. It provides a historical and conceptual background and explains how the chemical/mechanical model of health gained such a strong hold over our thinking and took the place of the earlier Galenic humoral model. It sketch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 277g
• ISBN-13: 9781032095318
• ISBN-10: 1032095318
• Artikelnr.: 62152562

Autorenporträt

Sholom Glouberman is Philosopher in Residence at Baycrest Health Sciences in Toronto. He has a PhD in Philosophy from Cornell University. His early experience in healthcare was caring for his dying father. He was a planner and adviser at the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal, a Fellow at the King's Fund in London England, the director of Health Policy for Canadian Policy Research Networks, the director of the International Health Management Program at McGill University and the founder of Patients Canada. He has been an adviser to many healthcare organizations in Canada and the UK. He has spoken before more than 25,000 people around the world. In the last few years he has worked extensively with patients and organizations to create patient partnerships and identify performance targets to humanize healthcare experiences. Sholom Glouberman is Chairman of the Patient Advisory Board of the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario which has 42,000 members. In 2015 he underwent a major surgical procedure and was himself a patient. His direct experience and work with others has helped him see the disparity between the current medical model and patient concerns. He has written four books and many articles.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents List of Figures ..................................................................... xi List of Tables .....................................................................xiii Acknowledgments ............................................................. xv Author ................................................................................ xix 1 Introduction .............................................................1 2 Aristotle and a Good Life ........................................7 Aristotle (384
322 BC) ........................................................ 7 How Aristotle
s Ideas Can Help Us Understand More about Health .............................................................12 3 Galen
s Four Humors: The First Medical Model ....15 Galen (AD 129
c.210) .......................................................16 4 The Renaissance and Roots of the Mechanical Patient ....................................................................25 Paracelsus (1493
1541) .....................................................26 Francis Bacon (1561
1626) .............................................. 28 William Harvey (1578
1657) ..............................................31 René Descartes (1596
1650) .............................................32 Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749
1827)......................................35 5 Robert Boyle: The First Mechanical Patient ..........37 Robert Boyle (1627
1691) .................................................37 Boyle and Samuel Hartlib .................................................40 Boyle and George Starkey (1628
1665) ...........................43 Boyle and William Petty (1623
1687) ...............................45 Boyle and John Wilkins (1614
1672) .............................. 46 Boyle and Thomas Willis (1621
1675) .............................47 Boyle and Robert Hooke (1635
1703) ............................ 48 Boyle and Thomas Hobbes (1588
1679) .........................51 Boyle and Arthur Coga (1631
1691) ................................53 Boyle and John Locke (1632
1704) ..................................53 Boyle and Isaac Newton (1642
1727) ..............................55 6 The Story of Scurvy and the First Failed Controlled Trial .....................................................59 George Anson, 1st Baron Anson (1697
1762) .................60 James Lind (1716
1794) ....................................................61 James Cook (1728
1779) .................................................. 64 John Pringle (1707
1782) ..................................................65 Sir Gilbert Blane (1749
1834) ...........................................66 Almroth Wright (1861
1947) .............................................69 Axel Holst (1860
1931) and Theodor Frolich (1870
1947) ........................................................................70 Ancel Keys (1904
2004) ....................................................71 7 Surgery and the Mechanical Patient ......................73 John Hunter (1728
1793) ..................................................74 Fanny Burney (1772
1840) ...............................................75 Ignaz Semmelweis (1818
1865) ....................................... 77 Joseph Lister (1827
1912) .................................................81 Wilhelm Röntgen (1845
1923) ..........................................82 Abraham Flexner (1866
1959) ......................................... 84 The Mechanical Patient in the Modern Hospital ..............85 Nurses in the Modern Hospital ........................................ 86 Lili Elbe (1882
1931) .........................................................87 Christiaan Barnard (1922
2001) ....................................... 88 Surgical Techniques ...................................................... 90 PROMs ........................................................................... 90 8 Medicine and the Chemical Patient .......................93 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689
1762) ........................93 Edward Jenner (1749
1823) ..............................................95 Louis Pasteur (1822
1895) ................................................ 96 Robert Koch (1843
1910), Ferdinand Cohn (1829
1898), and Maurice Hilleman (1919
2005) ............. 98 Mary Mallon (Typhoid Mary) (1869
1938) ....................... 99 Charles Best (1899
1978), Sir Frederick Banting (1891
1941), and James Collip (1892
1965) ..................101 The Tuskegee Syphilis Study (1932
1972) and Ethics ...101 Gerhard Domagk (1895
1964) ........................................102 Alexander Fleming (1881
1955), Howard Florey (1898
1968), and Ernst Chain (1906
1979) ......................103 Henrietta Lacks (1920
1951) ...........................................104 Ali Maow Maalin (1954
2013) ..........................................106 Sam Wagstaff (1921
1987) and Robert Mapplethorpe (1946
1989) .......................................................................106 WHO Atlas .......................................................................107 Brenda Zimmermann (1956
2014) .................................. 110 9 Genetics and the Return of Individualized Medicine ..............................................................113 Charles Darwin (1809
1882) ........................................... 114 An Aside on the Evolution of Human Consciousness ... 115 Francis Galton (1822
1911) .............................................. 115 Wilhelm Beiglböck (1905
1963), Karl Brandt (1904
1948), and Josef Mengele (1911
1979) ................... 116 Rosalind Franklin (1920
1958), Francis Crick (1916
2004), and James Watson (1928
) ......................... 118 Herbert Boyer (1936
) and Stanley Cohen (1935
) ......... 118 Charles DeLisi (1941
), Pete Domenici (1932
), and Craig Venter (1946
) ................................................. 119 Angelina Jolie (1975
) ......................................................120 Emmanuelle Charpentier (1968
) and Jennifer Doudna (1964
) ................................................................120 10 The Great Mortality Shift ....................................123 Edwin Chadwick (1800
1890) ........................................124 John Snow (1813
1858) ..................................................126 Joseph Bazalgette (1818
1891) .......................................127 John Simon (1816
1876) .................................................127 Aneurin Bevan (1897
1960) ............................................128 Rachel Carson (1907
1964) .............................................130 Thomas McKeown (1912
1988) ......................................131 Hubert Laframboise (1924
1991) and Marc Lalonde (1929
) .......................................................132 11 Humanizing Health: The Social/Relational Person ..................................................................139 The Great Chain of Being ............................................... 141 Voltaire (1694
1778), Rousseau (1712
1778), Diderot (1713
1784), and Hume (1711
1776)...................142 The Enlightenment and Reform ..................................142 James Edward Oglethorpe (1696
1785) .........................143 Jeremy Bentham (1748
1832) and John Stuart Mill (1806
1873) .......................................................................144 Richard Wilkinson (1943
) ..............................................146 Michael Marmot (1945
) .................................................. 147 Amartya Sen (1933
) ....................................................... 150 Thomas Piketty (1971
) ................................................... 151 Finding a More Human Model of Health .................... 151 Bibliography ............................................................... 157 Index ..........................................................................163