Hippocratic Oaths: Medicine and its Discontents

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‘Some of the intriguing figures in the current intellectual scene.’ Ray MonkPoet, philosopher, novelist and physician, Professor Raymond Tallis is among the world’s foremost scientific philosophers.In this book, for the first time, he brings together his diverse intellectual interests to address profoundly important questions about our well being.Hippocratic Oaths blends philosophy with public opinion, polemic and personal experience to bridge the disjunction between the health care we consider we are entitled to expect, and the difficult realities of what is imaginable.In a series of fiercely stimulating and impassioned arguments Tallis looks at the truth at the back of up to date public health scares; why we continue to incorrectly treat our bodies as if they were machines, separate from ourselves; and why the exploding popularity of alternative therapies is bad for doctors and patients alike.Hippocratic Oaths is the summation of a life time’s thought and medical practice, by Some of the singular stars in the British scientific firmament.It is going to, relatively simply, change eternally the way you consider yourself, and your health.

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