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The nature of healing : the modern practice of medicine / Eric J. Cassell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cassell, Eric J., 1928-2021, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physician and patient.
- Holistic medicine.
- Medicine--Philosophy.
- Medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this work, Eric Cassell explores what sickness is, what persons are, and how to understand function and its impairments. He explains healing skills and actions, as well as the nature of healing for sick and suffering patients.
- Contents:
- Sickness
- The person, sick or well
- Functioning
- What is healing?
- Listening : the foundation of the healing relationship of patient and clinician
- The evaluation of the patient
- Knowing the patient
- The patient's reaction to illness
- The state of illness
- Healing the sick patient
- Healing the suffering patient
- Respect for persons and autonomy
- Purposes, goals, and well-being.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-299-22401-6
- 0-19-970912-2
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