{"product_id":"to-fix-or-to-heal-9781479809585","title":"To Fix or To Heal","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDo doctors fix patients? Or do they heal them? For all of modern medicine's many successes, discontent with the quality of patient care has combined with a host of new developments, from aging populations to the resurgence of infectious diseases, which challenge medicine's overreliance on narrowly mechanistic and technical methods of explanation and intervention, or fixing' patients. The need for a better balance, for more humane healing rationales and practices that attend to the social and environmental aspects of health and illness and the experiencing person, is more urgent than ever. Yet, in public health and bioethics, the fields best positioned to offer countervailing values and orientations, the dominant approaches largely extend and reinforce the reductionism and individualism of biomedicine.\u003cbr\u003eThe collected essays in To Fix or To Heal do more than document the persistence of reductionist approaches and the attendant extension of medicalization to more and more aspects o\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn important and provocative contribution to a growing debate over the nature and social impact of what the authors describe as a dysfunctionally reductionist medical enterprise. This book questions the boundaries and moral implications of what many of us have come to accept as a necessarily medicalized world, a world of fixable individual bodies. It deserves a broad readership. -- Charles Rosenberg, author of Our Present Complaint: American Medicine, Then and Now\u003cbr\u003eJust when you thought nothing new could be said about reductionism and holism in biomedicine, \u003ci\u003eTo Fix or To Heal\u003c\/i\u003e appears and proves otherwise. Balanced and non-polemical, this collection shows how many recent biomedical developments, however much they seem to marginalize questions of value, morality, and social responsibility, often end up evoking them and making their consideration more urgent than ever. -- Robert Aronowitz, author of Unnatural History: Breast Cancer and American Society\u003cbr\u003eI thoroughly recommend this book for anyone who is interested in competing models in contemporary medicine. * Sociology of Health \u0026amp; Illness *\u003cbr\u003e[To Fix or To Heal] may help to enlighten those interested in policy to appreciate the historical dimensions of contemporary debates. Conversely, it could be useful reading for historians who want to think about how their research could play a role in ongoing discussions about tensions between reductionism and holism for health and health care. * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo Fix or to Heal \u003c\/i\u003eis an exciting and interestingly eclectic volume and a valuable contribution to the scholarship on ethics, public health, and justice. * New Genetics and Society *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409051296087,"sku":"9781479809585","price":23.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781479809585.jpg?v=1730505253","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/to-fix-or-to-heal-9781479809585","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}