Restoring Humane Values to Medicine

A Miles Little Reader

Author: Ian Kerridge, Christopher Jordens and Emma-Jane Sayers

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ISBN / EAN: 9781876861087
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Does reading poetry make you a better clinician?
Can euthanasia be understood in terms of the meaning of a life?
What is the moral and existential significance of life-threatening experiences?

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Australian surgeon, poet, philosopher and humanist, Miles Little addresses these and other fascinating questions in this collection of papers.

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Miles Little is one of the most original and engaging voices in contemporary medical ethics and philosophy. He ranges across the sciences and the humanities, creating hybrid fields of inquiry ("ethonomics"), interrogating orthodoxies and engaging different fields of human knowledge and experience.

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The papers in this collection were chosen by his readers, who also engage here with Miles Little's work in a short commentary that follows each paper. The range of the commentators reflects the breadth of Little's appeal and influence: academics and clinicians, philosophers and ethicists, novelists, public health practitioners and cancer survivors - each reflects, agrees or disagrees.

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Like Little's work itself, this Reader is an open and unfolding dialogue that includes many different perspectives.

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Commentators include:
Murray Bail, Robin Downie, Nancy Dubler, Stan Goulston, Jill Gordon, Paul Komesaroff, Steve Leeder, Paul McNeill , Gavin Mooney and Bernadette Tobin

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Critic Reviews

Foreword by The Hon Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG Introduction Ian Kerridge, Christopher Jordens and Emma-Jane Sayers PART 1: ETHICS IN MEDICINE Is there a distinctively surgical ethics?Commentaries by Michael Fearnside and Bernadette Tobin The fivefold root of an ethics of surgery Commentaries by Paul McNeill and Russell Gruen Does reading poetry make you a better clinician? Commentaries by Murray Bail, Jill Gordon and Stan Goulston Euthanasia and the meaning of a life Commentary by Roger Magnusson PART 2: PHILOSOPHY AND MEDICINE Assignments of meaning in Epidemiology Commentary by Alison Moore and Jason Grossman Better than numbers - a gentle critique of evidence-based medicine Commentaries by Rachel Ankeny, Les Bokey, Robin Downie, Steve Leeder, Melissa Sweet, Rob Simons and Natalie Gray Research, ethics and conflicts of interest Commentary by Nancy Dubler Logic, hermeneutics and informed consent see Commentary by Michael Carey On trust Commentary by Merrilyn Walton and Michael Carey Resource constraints and moral pressures see Commentary by Paul Gatenby Ethonomics Commentaries by Paul Gatenby and Gavin Mooney Discourse communities and the discourse of experience Commentary by Paul Komesaroff PART 3: ILLNESS EXPERIENCE AND SURVIVORSHIP Liminality: a major category of the experience of cancer illness Commentary by Heather McKenzie Survivorship and discourses of identity Commentaries by Phyllis Butow, Jane Cruikshank and Samantha Miles The skull beneath the skin Commentary by Mira Crouch Postscript by Martin Adson Miles Little: A select bibliography