Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-197) and index.
What is primary care?-- The heavy hand of the past: thinking about diseases versus thinking about persons-- The special problem of technology-- The clinical method-- The clinical method and the patient-- Where should primary care be taught- and by whom?-- What should be taught?
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Addressing the problems facing medicine and medical education Cassell discusses the new generalism and the skills that physicians-in-training must be taught in order to practice the art of doctoring which centres on the person not the disease.