Abstract
Acknowledgments and Preface Introduction: What Makes a Profession a Profession? Part I: From Healing Art to Scientific Profession: Medicine 500 B.C.E. to 1850 C.E. 1: Swearing by Apollo 2: The Levant: Saving Grace of the Middle Ages 3: Physicians, Barbers and Old Wives 4: Hospitals or Hospices? 5: Gifts from the Sister Sciences Part II:The Making of a Doctor: The Evolution of Medical Education 6: Acolytes and Apprentices 7: Starting with Salerno: Europe's First Medical Schools 8: From Sacrilege to Science: Dissection and Observation 9: Three Paths Leading to Modern Medical Education 10: Money Talks: Abraham Flexner's Reforms 11: High Tech, Low Touch? Part III: Changing Concepts of Medical Ethics: When Values Collide 12: A Sacred Trust: Roots of MedicalEthics 13: First, Do No Harm: The Introduction of Humanistic Values 14: The Physician as Gentle-man 15: Balancing Individual and Public Benefit: Experimental Abuses 16: Gods No More: The Rise of Patients' Rights 17: Collisions of Cultures Part IV: The Future of Medicine as a Profession: From Hippocrates to Dr. House 18: Cures, at Last! 19: The Conundrum of Insurance: Raising Income, Threatening Autonomy 20: Expanding Access to the Physician's Role 21: What It All Means Bibliography Index
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