The Unmasking of Medicine
A Searching Look at Healthcare Today
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:1st Dec '23
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Originally published in 1981 and then as a second edition, revised and updated in 1983 and now with a new Preface by Ian Kennedy, this is a hard-hitting and penetrating investigation behind the façade of late 20th Century medical thinking. Based on his controversial series of Reith Lectures, Ian Kennedy attacks issues and problems which are central to today’s debate over the provision of health care. He asks why people are willing to give up so much power over their own lives to the medical profession and discusses why the Health Service has become an illness service. He also questions whether doctors are adequately trained to deal with ethical problems.
Reviews of the original edition of The Unmasking of Medicine:
‘A splendidly polemical work that will irritate many of those engaged in the medical profession but should be a tonic to consumers of the service.’ New Statesman
‘Kennedy’s views have to be taken seriously, both for their own sake and because they are representative of the forces which seek to effect a radical change in the focus of medicine.’ British Medical Journal
‘Nurses must place themselves in the vanguard of this medical revolution, for all our sakes.’ Nursing Times
‘Kennedy has the trained lawyer’s skills in assembling, with hard-to-dismiss evidence, a case which doctors are understandably loath to admit.’ New Society
‘Some doctors may be angered but most, with luck, will be provoked to think.’ World Medicine.
ISBN: 9781032652030
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 820g
250 pages