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The Boy Who Refused To Say, "I Can't!" details the life of Jesse "JB" Bradford. Once he realized that there were no opportunities for a little boy with big dreams in Franklinton, North Carolina, the 15 year old Jesse boarded a bus headed to Washington, D.C. By the time his father noticed that he was gone, Jesse's dreams were already set in motion, and he had no plans on going back except to bring others along for the ride. ... Read more

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Title: Brutality and its aftermath: 'Flags of Our Fathers' shows Iwo Jima battle; 'Last King of Scotland' the reign of Idi Amin.(Movie review)
Author: Joseph Cunneen
Publication: National Catholic Reporter (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 10, 2006
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Volume: 43Issue: 4Page: 16(1)

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"Tauber looks deep into the relationship between physician and patient.A wise, humane and important work." -- Jonathan Cole, Department ofClinical Neurological Sciences, University of Southampton

"My mission is to analyze medicines ethical structure. I do so as both aphysician and a philosopher. Of my two voices, it is the latter that isinformed by the former. . . . As a physician I have sought professionalsolutions to the frustrations of fighting a medical system that hasbecome increasingly hostile to my standards of care for my patients; asa philosopher I will explore here the ethical issues I believe are theroot of our predicament." -- from the introduction

In Confessions of a Medicine Man, Alfred Tauber probes theethical structure of contemporary medicine in an argument accessible tolay readers, healthcare professionals, and ethicists alike. Throughpersonal anecdote, historical narrative, and philosophical discussion,Tauber composes a moral portrait of the doctor-patient relationship. Ina time when discussion has focused on market forces, he seeks to showhow our basic conceptions of health, the body, and most fundamentallyour very notion of selfhood frame our experience of illness. Arguingagainst an ethics based on a presumed autonomy, Tauber presents arelational ethic that must orient medical science and a voraciousindustry back to their primary moral responsibility: the empatheticresponse to the call of the ill. ... Read more

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MEDICAL ETHICS FOR THE TWENTY-FIRSTCENTURY
Here is a short, resonant book on a topic that concerns us all:medical ethics.

Alfred I. Tauber is a biochemist and an M.D. (medical doctor). He is also a professor of medicine and a professor of philosophy at BostonUniversity.

Tauber provides us with hard-to-get knowledge: (1) athoughtful historical overview of the development of twentieth centurymedicine (1880 to the end of the 1990s), with particular focus on thedoctor-patient relationship; and (2) a philosophically sophisticatedanalytical scheme that enables the reader to assess current developments (crudely: How is my HMO or managed care plan doing?).

Although Taubersubtitles his book "An Essay in Popular Philosophy," the word"popular" is somewhat misleading.The reader entirely innocentof twentieth-century Anlgo-American analyic philosophy as well as of itsdifferences from Continental (European) philosophy, may intially have a bitof hard time following the argument.

Nevertheless, CONFESSIONS OF AMEDICINE MAN is the right book at the right time.Deeply philosophical andfactually up-to-the-minute, it provides the compass we need to understandthe real causes of the "crisis in medical care" that most averageAmericans face. For example, Tauber gives an extended--andbrilliant--critique of one of those causes: the total acceptance of theidea of the "autonomous self" within the context of thedoctor-patient relationship.

For the interested reader, Tauber provides a valuable (& wonderfully readable) section called "BibliographicNotes."Here thereader can trace out the origins of Tauber'sthinking on the key topics covered in the book: changes in Americanmedicine over the past 120 years; the various concepts of "self"that doctors and HMOs adopt and how these varous concepts directly affectthe patient'srelationship with herdoctor; the whole notion of"medical ethics" itself and what its various interpretations maymean to the patient and her family (one of Tauber fresh observations:"medical ethics" is fast becoming a specialty, just like surgeryor gastroenterology--and that is just the direction we do NOT want togo).

A serious, needed book, one that challengesAmerican medicine'sdangerous and unacknowledged assumptions about exactly who the doctor isand who the patient is.Bravo! ... Read more