Brand New, Unread 'Hippocratic Oaths: Medicine and Its Discontents' by Raymond Tallis, published in 2004 in Great Britain by Atlantic Books, 342pp, ISBN 1843541270

About this book: In Hippocratic Oaths, the physician and philosopher Raymond Tallis yokes together his diverse intellectual interests to address profoundly important questions about our well-being. In a series of fiercely stimulating and impassioned arguments, he establishes the truth about, among many other questions, recent health scares; explains why patients now compete for our doctors' and nurses' time; why the exploding popularity of alternative therapies and medicines is actually bad for our health; and how one man's view of hte MMR vaccine influenced a nation.

Hippocratic Oaths is the summation of a life-time's thought and medical practice, by one of Britain's most unique and original thinkers. It will, quite simply, change for ever the way you think about yourself and your health.

Contents:
Acknowledgements
A (Very) Personal Introduction

PART ONE
Origins
1. The Medicine-Taking Animal: A Philosophical Overture
2. The Miracle of Scientific Medicine
3. The Coming of Age of the Youngest Science

PART TWO
Contemporary Discontents
4. Communication, Time, Waiting
5. Power and Trust
6. Enemies of Progress
7. Representations and Reality

PART THREE
8. 'Meagre Increments': the Supposed Failure of Success
9. The End of Medicine as a Profession?
10. 'Everyone Has to Die Sometime'
Notes; Index

About the Author:
Raymond Tallis is Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Manchester, and has published over 150 research papers, articles and textbooks. He is also a poet and a novelist as well as a renowned philosopher. And his recent work, Enemies of Hope, brings together his many strands of thought. The Raymond Tallis reader has recently been published by Macmillan. In 2004, Prospect magazine named him one of Britain's 100 most significant public intellectuals

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