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Author: Kaja Finkler Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 100030325X Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 258
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This ethnographic study offers a detailed picture of how modern biomedicine is altered when practised in a developing country. Addressing the question of therapeutic outcome, Dr Finkler examines various aspects of biomedicine that influence patient response. The doctor-patient relationship is seen as especially important. Physicians and patients sp
Author: Kaja Finkler Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 100030325X Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 258
Book Description
This ethnographic study offers a detailed picture of how modern biomedicine is altered when practised in a developing country. Addressing the question of therapeutic outcome, Dr Finkler examines various aspects of biomedicine that influence patient response. The doctor-patient relationship is seen as especially important. Physicians and patients sp
Author: Kaja Finkler Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 9780367282905 Category : Languages : en Pages : 273
Book Description
This ethnographic study offers a detailed picture of how modern biomedicine is altered when practised in a developing country. Addressing the question of therapeutic outcome, Dr Finkler examines various aspects of biomedicine that influence patient response.
Author: Janet Abrahm Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 9780801881008 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 524
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Janet L. Abrahm argues that all causes of suffering experienced by people with cancer, be they physical, psychological, social, or spiritual, should be treated at all stages: at diagnosis, during curative therapy, in the event that cancer recurs, and during the final months. In the second edition of this symptom-oriented guide, she provides primary care physicians, advanced practice nurses, internists and oncologists with detailed information and advice for alleviating the stress and pain of patients and family members alike. The new edition includes the latest information on patient and family communication and counseling, on medical, surgical, and complementary and alternative treatments for symptoms caused by cancer and cancer treatments, and on caring for patients in the last days and their bereaved families. Updated case histories, medication tables, Practice Points, and bibliographies provide clinicians with the information they need to treat their cancer patients effectively and compassionately.
Author: Anita Gupta Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199740607 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 317
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Interventional Pain Medicine provides comprehensive, point-of-care information for providers of pain therapies in a portable, easy-to-navigate format.
Author: Susan Greenhalgh Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520925092 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 385
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This compelling account of the author's experience with a chronic pain disorder and subsequent interaction with the American health care system goes to the heart of the workings of power and culture in the biomedical domain. It is a medical whodunit full of mysterious misdiagnosis, subtle power plays, and shrewd detective work. Setting a new standard for the practice of autoethnography, Susan Greenhalgh presents a case study of her intense encounter with an enthusiastic young specialist who, through creative interpretation of the diagnostic criteria for a newly emerging chronic disease, became convinced she had a painful, essentially untreatable, lifelong muscle condition called fibromyalgia. Greenhalgh traces the ruinous effects of this diagnosis on her inner world, bodily health, and overall well-being. Under the Medical Gaze serves as a powerful illustration of medicine's power to create and inflict suffering, to define disease and the self, and to manage relationships and lives. Greenhalgh ultimately learns that she had been misdiagnosed and begins the long process of undoing the physical and emotional damage brought about by her nearly catastrophic treatment. In considering how things could go so awry, she embarks on a cogent and powerful analysis of the sociopolitical sources of pain through feminist, cultural, and political understandings of the nature of medical discourse and practice in the United States. She develops fresh arguments about the power of medicine to medicalize our selves and lives, the seductions of medical science, and the deep, psychologically rooted difficulties women patients face in interactions with male physicians. In the end, Under the Medical Gaze goes beyond the critique of biomedicine to probe the social roots of chronic pain and therapeutic alternatives that rely on neither the body-cure of conventional medicine nor the mind-cure of some alternative medicines, but rather a broader set of strategies that address the sociopolitical sources of pain.
Author: Kim Kristiansen Publisher: Evidenceprofile ISBN: 9788799618507 Category : Languages : en Pages : 166
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Empowered to Manage a Life With Pain Living with ongoing pain is much more than living with the pain. It is a daily challenge to sleep, mood, tiredness, and much more. A challenge to the quality of life. In The Empowered Pain Patient" primary care physician and pain researcher Kim Kristiansen, M.D. provides knowledge and strategies to individualized ongoing customized pain management, and enhanced shared decision making. Pain management based on individualized information about pain and quality of life. The pain is validated and acknowledged as is the pain's influence on the persons life. Information and understanding of pain mechanisms relates to the individual experience. The person, active in pain management, works with the health care professional(s) to set treatment goals and to evaluate and adjust the effects of treatment. Pain is the most frequent presented symptom in healthcare, and more than 100 million people in both USA and Europe living with pain every day. Pain management must be based on shared understanding and shared decisions between the patient and the healthcare professionals together. ------ An excellent book which will be useful to patients living with pain, also to doctors and healthcare professionals. Peter Moore, co-author of The Pain-ToolkitValidated Pain Management In Validated Pain Management knowledge about pain mechanisms is linked to the individual patient's actual experience and situation, clear to see and understand by both the patient and the healthcare professional(s). Together. This also acknowledges and validates the patient's pain and its impact on the quality of life. Based on this can treatment options be discussed, chosen, and evaluated still based on shared understanding of the actual individual experience and available medical knowledge. Pain management is an ongoing process, and it must be comprehensive and involve more than the pain alone. In Validated Pain Management this is easy to do using the developed and scientifically validated tool. Discover: The Empowered Pain Patient Part 1: Pain and Chronic Pain. Defining and understanding pain and how pain is experienced. How processes can go wrong and the pain not just continue but be amplified. Part 2: How to measure pain and its impact on quality of life Part 3: Presenting and describing Validated Pain Management including "The 7 Elements of Validated Pain Management," describing easy to follow steps to take, and patient stories. Including how to reduce risk of medicine misuse or addiction. Part 4: The Roles: Describing the role of the person living with the pain, the role of the relative or loved one, the role of the healthcare professional, and the role of the healthcare system Part 5: How to individualize evidence-based medicine to become an empowered patientWant to Know More? Get the book now and take your pain management to the next level. Scroll to the top of the page and select the buy button.
Author: Tim Sams Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595382800 Category : Pain Languages : en Pages : 332
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Dedicated pain psychologist Dr. Tim Sams has teamed with hundreds of pain physicians over his career. In his groundbreaking work, ABC's of Pain Relief and Treatment: Advances, Breakthroughs, and Choices, you will discover his unique paradigm for achieving and maintaining the best possible pain relief. Dr. Sams's expert advice has helped thousands of patients create their own Personal Pain Paradigm. The PPP advocates directing your doctor through the most recent treatment advances; breakthroughs in coping that accelerate pain relief; and choices that raze the barriers to maximally effective medical treatment. You too can master the following: * Learning the eleven-step hierarchy of medical treatments for pain * Negotiating more effective pain treatments with your doctor * Delighting in social, pleasurable, and productive activity without pain increases * Selecting the best medication regimen for your specific condition * Using nutritional supplements to enhance your pain relief * Enjoying physical activity and exercise without pain increases * Assessing how you may be sabotaging your medical care Combining blunt, practical advice with warm humor and vivid examples, ABC's of Pain Relief and Treatment is for those who are sincere about pain relief. Let your Personal Pain Paradigm help you build a pain-resistant life and re-discover passion and purpose.
Author: Danielle Ofri, MD Publisher: Beacon Press ISBN: 0807073334 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 267
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“A fascinating journey into the heart and mind of a physician” that explores the doctor-patient relationship, the flaws in our health care system, and how doctors’ emotions impact medical care (Boston Globe) While much has been written about the minds and methods of the medical professionals who save our lives, precious little has been said about their emotions. Physicians are assumed to be objective, rational beings, easily able to detach as they guide patients and families through some of life’s most challenging moments. But understanding doctors’ emotional responses to the life-and-death dramas of everyday practice can make all the difference on giving and getting the best medical care. Digging deep into the lives of doctors, Dr. Danielle Ofri examines the daunting range of emotions—shame, anger, empathy, frustration, hope, pride, occasionally despair, and sometimes even love—that permeate the contemporary doctor-patient connection. Drawing on scientific studies, including some surprising research, Dr. Ofri offers up an unflinching look at the impact of emotions on health care. Dr. Ofri takes us into the swirling heart of patient care, telling stories of caregivers caught up and occasionally torn down by the whirlwind life of doctoring. She admits to the humiliation of an error that nearly killed one of her patients. She mourns when a beloved patient is denied a heart transplant. She tells the riveting stories of an intern traumatized when she is forced to let a newborn die in her arms, and of a doctor whose daily glass of wine to handle the frustrations of the ER escalates into a destructive addiction. Ofri also reveals that doctors cope through gallows humor, find hope in impossible situations, and surrender to ecstatic happiness when they triumph over illness.
Author: Scott M. Fishman Publisher: OUP USA ISBN: 0199891982 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 145
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This book shows how communicating better with patients about their pain can help clinicians create safer and more effective treatment strategies. This book offer clinicians a wealth of pratical guidance about asking the right questions and assessing patient responses.
Author: Kaja Finkler
Author: Kaja Finkler
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Author: Kaja Finkler
Author: Janet Abrahm
Author: Anita Gupta
Author: Susan Greenhalgh
Author: Kim Kristiansen
Author: Tim Sams
Author: Danielle Ofri, MD
Author: Scott M. Fishman