Author: Kurt PollakPublisher: London : Nelson
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The Healers: the Doctor, Then and Now
Author: Kurt PollakPublisher: London : Nelson
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The Healers
Author: The Healers
Author: Kurt PollakThe Healer's Power
Author: Howard BrodyPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300057836
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Drawing on literary works dealing with medical power, Brody argues that proposals to reduce or eliminate the power of the physician are misguided. Instead, there should be guidelines to enable the physician to share with the patient the information and responsibility for deciding on treatment.
Slow Medicine
Author: Victoria SweetPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698183711
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
"Wonderful... Physicans would do well to learn this most important lesson about caring for patients." —The New York Times Book Review Over the years that Victoria Sweet has been a physician, “healthcare” has replaced medicine, “providers” look at their laptops more than at their patients, and costs keep soaring, all in the ruthless pursuit of efficiency. Yet the remedy that economists and policy makers continue to miss is also miraculously simple. Good medicine takes more than amazing technology; it takes time—time to respond to bodies as well as data, time to arrive at the right diagnosis and the right treatment. Sweet knows this because she has learned and lived it over the course of her remarkable career. Here she relates unforgettable stories of the teachers, doctors, nurses, and patients through whom she discovered the practice of Slow Medicine, in which she has been both pioneer and inspiration. Medicine, she helps us to see, is a craft and an art as well as a science. It is relational, personal, even spiritual. To do it well requires a hard-won wisdom that no algorithm can replace—that brings together “fast” and “slow” in a truly effective, efficient, sustainable, and humane way of healing.
Doctors and Healers
Author: Tobie NathanPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1509521879
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
We think we know what healers do: they build on patients’ irrational beliefs and treat them in a ‘symbolic’ way. If they get results, it’s thanks to their capacity to listen, rather than any influence on a clinical level. At the same time, we also think we know what modern medicine is: a highly technical and rational process, but one that scarcely listens to patients at all. In this book, ethnopsychiatrist Tobie Nathan and philosopher Isabelle Stengers argue that this commonly posed opposition between traditional and modern medicine is misleading. They show instead that healers are interesting precisely because they don’t listen to patients, using techniques of ‘divination’ rather than ‘diagnosis’. Healers construct genuine therapeutic strategies by identifying the origins of symptoms in external forces, outside of the mind of the sufferer. Modern medicine, for its part, is characterized by empiricism rather than rationality. What appears to be the pursuit of rationality is ultimately only a means to dismiss and exclude other forms of treatment. Blurring the distinctions between traditional and modern practices and drawing on perspectives from across the globe, this ethnopsychiatric manifesto encourages us to think in radically new ways about illness, challenging accepted notions on the relationship between sufferer and symptom.
The Healing Enigma
Author: Robert Jaggs-FowlerPublisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1789015391
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The concept of the physician-priest is an ancient one existing pre-Christianity, and historic references to the role can be found within the majority of religions and across all continents. However, despite a growing body of scientific evidence indicating the value of spirituality, the 20th century medical profession within the Western world has placed religion at arm’s length, effectively excluding such discussion from the medical consultation. Referring to both primary and secondary sources within theological, medical, legal, historic and philosophical literature, Robert puts forward an argument in support of a 21st century role for the physician-priest. He argues that if the physician can exercise the role of priest in addition to their medical role, they can thereby truly minister to the whole person in terms of mind, body and soul. With consideration of modern NHS funding streams, Robert suggests a radical proposal whereby the Church of England and medical educational institutions might combine to offer dual theological and medical training. The result would establish a new breed of professional person ideally positioned in respect to the care of the elderly and those with terminal illness. The Healing Enigma suggests that this not only assists with the provision of ‘whole-person’ care, but also allows the Church to firmly re-establish itself in the 21st century within its Christian healing tradition.
To Regulate the Practice of the Healing Art in the District of Columbia
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of ColumbiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Licenses
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
The Healer's Art
Author: Eric J. CassellPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262530620
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Beyond drugs, beyond technology, there will always be the human element, the healer's art. Dr. Cassell discusses the world of the sick, the healing connection and healer's battle, the role of omnipotence in the healer's art, illness and disease, and overcoming the fear of death. Eric J. Cassell, M.D., is an internist and clinical director of the Program for the Study of Ethics and Values in Medicine at Cornell Medical School. His two-volume work Talking with Patients: The Theory of Doctor-Patient Communication, and Clinical Technique, is available from The MIT Press in cloth and paperback.
To Regulate the Practice of the Healing Art in D.C.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee on Public Health, Education, Welfare, and SafetyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical personnel
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Considers (70) S. 3107.