Ordinary Medicine

Kaufman Sharon R. Kaufman

Description

Most of us want and expect medicine's miracles to extend our lives. In today's aging society, however, the line between life-giving therapies and too much treatment is hard to see-it's being obscured by a perfect storm created by the pharmaceutical and biomedical industries, along with insurance companies. In Ordinary Medicine Sharon R. Kaufman investigates what drives that storm's "more is better" approach to medicine: a nearly invisible chain of social, economic, and bureaucratic forces that has made once-extraordinary treatments seem ordinary, necessary, and desirable. Since 2002 Kaufman has listened to hundreds of older patients, their physicians and family members express their hopes, fears, and reasoning as they faced the line between enough and too much intervention. Their stories anchor Ordinary Medicine. Today's medicine, Kaufman contends, shapes nearly every American's experience of growing older, and ultimately medicine is undermining its own ability to function as a social good. Kaufman's careful mapping of the sources of our health care dilemmas should make it far easier to rethink and renew medicine's goals.

Sujets

• Médecine
• Medical genetics

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 29 mai 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822375500
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 15 Mo

Extrait

PRAISE FORORDINARY MEDICINE

“ï éôûéOîày Méîçîé. ï àé é çôûàé. ï éé é éîéàé, ŝôéîéŝ ô é fiŝ îé, é îéôçî ôçéŝ à àçîçéŝ à àé éé çéàé à éîéîç ô ûéçéŝŝà ŝûFéî à é é ô îé. Béààî î îŝ ŝçôé, îô, à îééçûà àé, îŝ ôô î é éà- éŝ àé àç çôô ô éî îéŝ à éàŝ ô é ôçéŝ à àé çéàé à ‘ôîà’ é-ô-îé éîçîé à îŝ à ô ôîà.” —KATY BUTLER, àûô ôKôçkî ô Héàvé’ŝ Dôô: Té Pàt tô à Bétté Wày ô Déàt

“Té éçôéàîô  é àà ô Méîçàé ô éî à- î ŝîçîàŝ ô îŝçûŝŝîôŝ î àîéŝ àôû é-ô-îé çàé àéŝ îŝ é ôô  Sàô R. Kàûà àîçûà îé. Sé éàîŝ  é éŝé éà çàé ŝŝé îŝ î- àŝé ôà éçéŝŝ éàé à é é ô îé à àôçàéŝ à ôà àôàç ô éà çàé éôŝ à ôéŝ éô çôŝ çôô ô éçôàŝŝ ŝôçîà à éîçà çôŝîéàîôŝ.” —VICTOR R. FUCHS, àûô ôWô Sàll Lîvé? Héàlt, eçôôîçŝ à Sôçîàl Côîçé

“Sàô R. Kàûà àŝ àé à îôà à îŝûî îŝçôé àôû é îŝ ééé ô-ôfi éàçàé çô- àîéŝ, ŝô-çàé éîéçé-àŝé éîçîé, ôçôŝ, à à- îéŝ.Oîày Méîçîéŝôû é éà, ôû àôû, à àçé ûô  ôŝé ô àé é ôé ô éFéç çàé.” —VICTORIA SWEET, àûô ôgô’ŝ Hôtél: A Dôçtô, à Hôŝîtàl, à à Pîlîàé tô té Héàt ô Méîçîé

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ORDINARYMEDICINE

cîîçà Gôà Héà: Eîéçé, EIçàç, Eôà eîté y Vîçàé Aàŝ à Jôãô Bîél

ORDINARY MEDICINE Eàôîà Téàéŝ, ôé îéŝ, à Wéé ô dà é îé

SHARON R. KAUFMAN

Duke university Press Dûà & Lôô 

©  dûé Uîéŝî péŝŝ

A îŝ éŝéé

pîé î é Uîé Sàéŝ ô Aéîçà

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Téŝé î Sçàà  Wéŝçéŝé Bôô Gôû

îà ô côéŝŝ cààôî-î-pûîçàîô dàà

Kàûà, Sàô R.

Oîà éîçîé : éàôîà éàéŝ, ôé îéŝ, à éé ô à é îé / Sàô R. Kàûà àéŝ ç—(cîîçà ôà éà) ïçûéŝ îîôàîçà éééçéŝ à îé.

isbn ---- (àçôé : à. àé)

isbn ---- (. : à. àé)

isbn ---- (é-ôô)

. Méîçà çàé—Uîé Sàéŝ. . Méîçà

éîçŝ—Uîé Sàéŝ. . Méîçà çàé, côŝ ô— Uîé Sàéŝ. . ôéî—Uîé Sàéŝ. i. Tîé. ii. Séîéŝ: cîîçà ôà éà. ra.ak  .—ç 

côé à: ERôûçîôŝ . / Gé ïàéŝ

Tô té éôy ô y àté, Béà Kàûà J., mD, 1914–2008, à tô Gà Béçé, çôlléàûé, îé, 1943–2007

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CONTENTS

. Açôééŝ î ïôûçîô . Dîàôŝî Téty-îŝt-Cétûy Héàlt Càé

PART I:THE QUANDARY AND UNEXAMINED ORDINARINESS OF TWENTYFIRSTCENTURY MEDICINE

. Oîà Méîçîé î Oû Aî Sôçîé . Té Dîléà ô Lôévîty

PART II:THE CHAIN OF HEALTH CARE DRIVERS

. Té Méîçà-ïûŝîà côé ï evîéçé-Bàŝé Méîçîé, té Bîôéîçàl eçôôy, . à té Aŝçéàçé ô Clîîçàl Tîàlŝ

. Té Méîçà-ïûŝîà côé ïï Aççéŝŝ, ïûŝty, à té Clîîçàl Tîàlŝ . Péôéô

. “Réîûŝéé ïŝ cîîçà ô Eéî” . Méîçàé à té etîçŝ ô Mààî Lîé

PART III:MEDICINE’S CHANGING MEANS AND ENDS

. Sàà à Néçéŝŝà Téàéŝ . Té Càî Méàŝ à eŝ ô Téçôlôy

. àî Màéŝ . Kîéyŝ à Né ôŝ ô Càé