To Fix or To Heal Patient Care, Public Health, and the Limits of Biomedicine

"An important and provocative contribution to a growing debate over the nature and social impact of what the authors describe as a dysfunctionally reductionist medical enterprise. This book questions the boundaries and moral implications of what many of us have come to accept as a necessarily medicalized world, a world of fixable individual bodies. It deserves a broad readership."-Charles Rosenberg,author of Our Present Complaint: American Medicine, Then and Now "Just when you thought nothing new could be said about reductionism and holism in biomedicine, To Fix or To Heal appears and proves otherwise. Balanced and non-polemical, this collection shows how many recent biomedical developments, however much they seem to marginalize questions of value, morality, and social responsibility, often end up evoking them and making their consideration more urgent than ever."-Robert Aronowitz,author of Unnatural History: Breast Cancer and American Society