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Whole Person Care A New Paradigm for the 21st Century /

A ground-breaking new volume and the first of its kind to concisely outline and explicate the emerging field of whole person care process, Whole Person Care: A New Paradigm for the 21st Century organizes the disparate strains of literature on the topic. It does so by clarifying the concept of '...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Hutchinson, Tom A. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
Edición:1st ed. 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Foreword
  • Whole person care
  • Suffering, whole person care, and the goals of medicine
  • The healing journey
  • The challenge of medical dichotomies and the congruent physician / patient relationship in medicine
  • Separation-attachment theory in illness and the role of the healthcare practitioner
  • Empathy, compassion and the goals of medicine
  • Mindfulness and whole person care
  • Healing, wounding, and the language of medicine
  • Death anxiety: the challenge and the promise of whole person care
  • Whole person self-care: self-care from the inside out
  • Prevention and whole person care
  • Whole person care and complementary and alternative therapies
  • Spiritual dimensions of whole person care
  • Whole person care and the revolution in genetics
  • Whole person care on a busy medical ward
  • Teaching whole person care in medical school
  • Whole person care, professionalism, and the medical mandate
  • Whole person care: Conclusions
  • Appendix.