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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.



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About the editors and authors. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Narratives. A piece of my skin. Prognosis as process. Prognosis, time and commitment. Acute and chronic. Becoming. Prognosis or Prophecy? First do no harm. Technology, ageing and death. Open futures, human finitude. Postscript.

Medical Humanities Companion, Volume 4

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    A Paperback / softback by Jill Gordon, Jane MacNaughton, Carl Edvard Rudeback

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 31/12/2013
      ISBN13: 9781846195556, 978-1846195556
      ISBN10: 1846195551
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.



      Table of Contents
      About the editors and authors. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Narratives. A piece of my skin. Prognosis as process. Prognosis, time and commitment. Acute and chronic. Becoming. Prognosis or Prophecy? First do no harm. Technology, ageing and death. Open futures, human finitude. Postscript.

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