Textbook of family medicine
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Textbook of family medicine
Oxford University Press, 2009
3rd ed
- : pbk
Available at 15 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Highly successful in its first two editions, McWhinney's Textbook of Family Medicine is one of the seminal texts in the field. While many family medicine texts simply cover the disorders a practitioner might see in clinical practice (thus they become watered-down internal medicine texts), McWhinney defines the principles and practices of family medicine as a separate and distinct field of practice. His initial sections cover the basis principles and philosophies of family medicine and a later section discusses the approach to the patients with common diseases encountered in practice (these discussions not only address these clinical problems, but each is a workshop for incorporating what it means to be a family physician into everyday practice). The new edition is updated throughout with help from a group of reviewers and a new coauthor, Tom Freeman, who is Chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at McWhinney's institution, the University of Western Ontario.
Table of Contents
- Part I
- Basic Principles
- 1. The Origins of Family Medicine
- 2. Principles of Family Medicine
- 3. Illness in the Community
- 4. A Profile of Family Practice
- 5. Philosophical and Scientific Foundations of Family Medicine
- 6. Illness, Suffering, and Healing
- 7. Doctor-Patient Communication
- 8. Clinical Method
- 9. The Enhancement of Health and Prevention of Disease
- 10. The Family in Health and Disease
- Part II
- Clinical Problems
- 11. Acute Sore Throat
- 12. Headache
- 13. Fatigue
- 14. Hypertension
- 15. Diabetes
- Part III
- The Practice of Family Medicine
- 16. Home Care
- 17. Records
- 18. Consultation and Referral
- 19. The Health Professions
- 20. The Community Service Network
- 21. Alternative, or Complementary Medicine
- 22. Practice Management
- Part IV
- Education and Research
- 23. Continuing Self-Education
- 24. Research in Family Practice
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