Whole person care : a new paradigm for the 21st century
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Whole person care : a new paradigm for the 21st century
Springer, c2011
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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A ground-breaking new volume and the first of its kind to concisely outline and explicate the emerging field of whole person care process, Whole Person Care: A New Paradigm for the 21st Century organizes the disparate strains of literature on the topic. It does so by clarifying the concept of 'whole person' and also by outlining the challenges and opportunities that death anxiety poses to the practice of whole person care. Whole person care seeks to study, understand and promote the role of health care in relieving suffering and promoting healing in acute and chronic illness as a complement to the disease focus of biomedicine. The focus is on the whole person -- physical, emotional, social, and spiritual. Using concise, easy-to-read language, the early chapters offer practitioners a thorough understanding of the concepts, skills and tools necessary for the practice of whole person care from a clinician-patient interaction standpoint, while the last two chapters review the myriad implications of whole person care for medical practice. An invaluable resource for all areas of medical practice and for practitioners at all stages of development, from medical students to physicians and allied health providers with many years of experience, Whole Person Care: A New Paradigm for the 21st Century will have a profound impact on western medical practice in North America and elsewhere.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments Tom A. Hutchinson Preface Tom A. Hutchinson Foreword Balfour M. Mount 1. Whole person care Tom A. Hutchinson 2. Suffering, whole person care, and the goals of medicine Eric J. Cassell 3. The healing journey Tom A. Hutchinson, Balfour M. Mount, Michael Kearney 4. The challenge of medical dichotomies and the congruent physician / patient relationship in medicine Tom A. Hutchinson, James R. Brawer 5. Separation-attachment theory in illness and the role of the healthcare practitioner Gregory Fricchione 6. Empathy, compassion and the goals of medicine Stephen Liben 7. Mindfulness and whole person care Patricia L. Dobkin 8. Healing, wounding, and the language of medicine Abraham Fuks 9. Death anxiety: the challenge and the promise of whole person care Sheldon Solomon, Krista Lawlor 10. Whole person self-care: self-care from the inside out Michael Kearney, Radhule Weininger 11. Prevention and whole person care Tom A. Hutchinson 12. Whole person care and complementary and alternative therapies Mary Grossman 13. Spiritual dimensions of whole person care Abdu'l-Missagh Ghadirian 14. Whole person care and the revolution in genetics David S. Rosenblatt, Jennifer Fitzpatrick 15. Whole person care on a busy medical ward Gordon L. Crelinsten 16. Teaching whole person care in medical school Helen Mc Namara, J. Donald Boudreau 17. Whole person care, professionalism, and the medical mandate Richard L. Cruess, Sylvia R. Cruess 18. Whole person care: Conclusions Tom A. Hutchinson Appendix
- The nature of persons and clinical medicine Eric J. Cassell
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