Relational medicine : personalizing modern healthcare : the practice of high-tech medicine as a RelationalAct / Federica Raia, Mario Deng.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Raia, Federica, author.

Deng, Mario C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physician and patient.

Heart failure--Psychological aspects.

Heart failure.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (168 p.)

Place of Publication:

Singapore : World Scientific : Imperial College Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this book, we present a novel framework of high-tech modern medicine. Patients going through major high-tech medical interventions, e.g. Advanced Heart Failure (AdHF) patients undergoing left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation and heart transplantation, must integrate scientific and technological advances into personal life, including strong emotional experiences unthinkable thirty years ago, novel to themselves and their caregivers and unknown to healthcare professionals. Our book provides a theoretical framework for the person-centered vision to "heal humankind by improving hea

Contents:

Foreword; Acknowledgments; CONTENTS; Introduction; Medical Encounters in High-Tech Modern Medicine; About This Book; Method; Formulating the question; Collaborating; Studying the practice; 1 Status Quo; False Hope; The Body, Being in theWorld; LVAD, BiVAD, disease, the body: Conspicuousness and obtrusiveness in high-tech modern medicine; Embodied human experiences: Loss of significance in high-tech modern medicine; The Encounter; The Status Quo; 2 The Roots for Personcare; Irreducibility of the Person's Experience; Temporality; Attunement and Synchronization; 3 The RelationalAct

Preparation PhaseInitiation Phase; The role of expectation in the RelationalAct; Continuation Phase; The role of the illness experience in the RelationalAct; The role of attuning and synchronization in the RelationalAct; The physical examination in the RelationalAct; Conclusion Phase; The Evolution of the Encounter; 4 Protecting the Dyad in Practice; The Function of the Dyad; A Transformation for the Doctor to Maintain the Dyad; 5 Personalizing Biomedical Research; Definitions of Heart Transplantation Rejection; Endomyocardial biopsy defined rejection

Leukocyte expression profile and rejectionA step towards personalizing medicine; Non-Invasive Rejection Monitoring in the Clinical Encounter; 6 Conclusion; Afterword; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789814616300

9814616303

9789814579698

9814579696