The nature of suffering and the goals of medicine

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Hlavní autor: Cassell, Eric J., 1928-
Korporativní autor: ebrary, Inc
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Vydání:2nd ed.
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Obsah:
  • Ideas in conflict: the rise and fall of new views of disease
  • The changing concept of the ideal physician
  • The nature of suffering
  • Suffering in chronic illness
  • The mysterious relationship between doctor and patient
  • How to understand diseases
  • The pursuit of disease or the care of the sick?
  • Treating the disease, the body, or the patient
  • The doctor and the patient
  • Who is this person?
  • The measure of the person
  • The clinician's experience: power versus magic in medicine
  • Mind and body
  • The illness called dying
  • Pain and suffering
  • Epilogue: the care of the suffering patient.