The ethos medical practice in age of computerized technology -- On the nature of medical knowledge : evidenced based medicine in postmodern America -- The culture of medical practice : corporate computerization versus the face of the other -- Practical and ethical concerns regarding aspects of quality improvement measures -- The uneven encounter between postmodern expectations & corporate control of medical practice -- Power and trust in the patient-physician relationship : postmodern values and the patient-centered medical home -- Medical education in postmodern America : a physician-in-training is a consumer too -- Medical professionalism : what does altruism have to do with it? -- The postmodern physician ethos and morale -- Bioethics in postmodern America -- Ethical medicine, performativity, and the Silicon cage -- Medical care embedded in American culture : repositioning the medical ethos for the 21st century -- Epilogue : ethos of medicine in postmodern America.