Patients Are People : A Medical-Social Approach to Prolonged Illness / Minna Field.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Field, Minna, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1967]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Examines the impact of longer life expectancy, chronic illness, rehabilitation and hospitalization on the patient to improve care.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword / Bluestone, E. M.

Foreword to the Second Edition / Kessler, Henry H.

Foreword to the Third Edition / Hart, James C.

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments to the Third Edition

Contents

Chapter I. Introductory Statement

Chapter II. Evolution of a Concept

Chapter III. The Extent of the Problem

Chapter IV. Ravages of Prolonged Illness

Chapter V. The Meaning of Hospitalization

Chapter VI. Posthospital Adjustment

Chapter VII. Learning to Live with the Illness

Chapter VIII. Rehabilitation as Part of Total Medical Care

Chapter IX. The Impact of Illness on the Family

Chapter X. A Long-range View

Reading References

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-88777-9

OCLC:

1100445669