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Caring for Patients : A Critique of the Medical Model / Allen Barbour.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barbour, Allen, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (420 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- "See your patient as a person, not a disease." This is the essential message of an experienced and compassionate physician who questions the prevailing medical model of patient care - that every illness has a physical cause that can be identified and treated medically - and who argues for the necessity of taking the psychological and social circumstances of the patient into account in the process of diagnosis and treatment.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Author's Preface
- A Note to the Reader
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART I. The Need for a Person-Centered Perspective
- 1. The Limitations of the Medical Model
- 2. "What This Patient Needs Is a Doctor" 31
- 3. The Concept of Disease
- 4. Personal Illness: The Functional Disorders
- 5. Personal Illness: The Concept of Care Determines the Outcome
- 6. Diagnostic Strategies for Unrecognized Personal Illness
- 7. Health Practices, Psychosocial Distress, and Organic Disease
- 8. Psychiatric Disorders: The Medical Model in Perspective
- 9. Psychiatric Disorders: Is Feeling Depressed a Disease?
- 10. Barriers to Person-Centered Care
- PART II. Emotions and Emotional Symptoms
- 11. Cognitive/Emotional Dissociation: A Common Cause of Illness
- 12. Emotionally Induced Physical Symptoms
- 13. Functional Syndromes: Differential Diagnosis
- PART III. Person-Centered Care
- 14. Collaboration Begins: The Medical History
- 15. Misunderstandings and Hidden Issues
- 16. Collaboration Continues: First Talks About Persona/Illness
- 17. The Core of the Collaboration: The Personal Interview
- 18. Engaging the Patient
- Literature Cited
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)
- ISBN:
- 1-5036-1549-9
- OCLC:
- 1294424045
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