This book provides part of the important and formative reading a medical student
must do outside the prescribed requirements for a degree, and is also equally
valuable to qualified practitioners and medical professionals. Here, laid out
clearly and concisely, are all the well-established potholes and pitfalls in
current medical thinking and practice. It is a thought provoking challenge to
modern medical practice and research and is intended to encourage us to consider
the way medicine is taught. Modern medical practices are driven by science,
technology and consumerism, with the cost of treatment weighted in favour of the
doctor rather than to the benefit of the patient. Dr. Hegde confronts the issue,
and proposes an alternative humanistic attitude to education and treatment.
Drawing on a huge range of resources from Sanskrit texts, Green and European
philosophers, ancient and modern healers, to the most up to date Western
research and publications - he has written a book that is both scholarly yet
easy to read, a polemic against and an appreciate of the art and practice of
medicine, and which will appeal to everyone involved in medicine whether
students, practitioners or patients.