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The nature of suffering and the goals of medicine / Eric J. Cassell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cassell, Eric J., 1928-2021.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--Philosophy.
- Medicine.
- Suffering.
- Physician and patient.
- Palliative treatment.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (336 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is a revised and expanded edition of a classic in palliative medicine, originally published in 1991. With three added chapters and a new preface summarizing our progress in the area of pain management, this is a must-have for those in palliative medicine and hospice care.
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-306) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-50243-6
- 0-19-974800-4
- 9786610502431
- 1-60256-743-3
- OCLC:
- 173843216
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