Enigma of Health: The Art of Healing in a Scientific Age

"This is an extraordinarily thoughtful and insightful analysis of major contemporary problems dealing with the physician-patient relationship and the attitudes of society toward health, illness, and death. I know of no work that attempts to do what Gadamer does here. The book will serve educators in the humanities--especially those in philosophy, psychology, and sociology--as well as many persons in the health professions. I would be pleased if its message were absorbed by every student and practitioner of medicine."--Victor Vaughan, M.D., Stanford University School of Medicine