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The nature of suffering and the goals of medicine / Eric J. Cassell.
Holman Biotech Commons R723 .C42828 2004
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LIBRA R723 .C42828 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cassell, Eric J., 1928-2021.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--Philosophy.
- Medicine.
- Suffering.
- Physician and patient.
- Palliative treatment.
- Philosophy, Medical.
- Chronic Disease--therapy.
- Pain Management.
- Palliative Care--methods.
- Physician-Patient Relations.
- Medical Subjects:
- Philosophy, Medical.
- Chronic Disease--therapy.
- Pain Management.
- Palliative Care--methods.
- Physician-Patient Relations.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- Here is a thoroughly updated edition of a classic in palliative medicine. Two new chapters have been added to the 1991 edition, along with a new preface summarizing where progress has been made and where it has not in the area of pain management. This book addresses the timely issue of doctor-patient relationships arguing that the patient, not the disease, should be the central focus of medicine. Included are a number of compelling patient narratives. Praise for the first edition "Well written. . .should be read by everyone in medical practice or Considering a career in medicine."--JAMA. "Memorable passages, important ideas, and critical analysis. This is a book that clinicians and educators should read."--New England Journal of Medicine.
- Contents:
- Ideas in conflict : the rise and fall of new views of disease
- The changing concept of the ideal physician
- The nature of suffering
- Suffering in chronic illness
- The mysterious relationship between doctor and patient
- How to understand diseases
- The pursuit of disease or the care of the sick?
- Treating the disease, the body, or the patient
- The doctor and the patient
- Who is this person?
- The measure of the person
- The clinician's experience : power versus magic in medicine
- Mind and body
- The illness called dying
- Pain and suffering
- Epilogue: the care of the suffering patient.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-306) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195156161
- OCLC:
- 51278448
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