David Greaves
The Healing Tradition: Reviving the Soul of Western Medicine
Radcliffe
2004 PB, 168 pp, £21.95, 1 85775 963 X
David Greaves has subtitled this excellent book ‘reviving the soul of western medicine’. He has a big project in mind. Readers will be delighted to hear that many of the powerful arguments the author advances to support his programme of professional rejuvenation place primary care at the centre of a new medical order.
Greaves begins with an introduction that is possibly the best short summary of medical philosophy in print. No reflective practitioner could fail to be interested in this survey of the intellectual background to the current state of …