The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine
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Product details:
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication 2 June 1994
- ISBN 9780195089127
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 233x156x18 mm
- Weight 394 g
- Language English
- Illustrations line figures 0
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Short description:
Underscores the change that is taking place in medicine from a basic concern with disease to a greater focus on the sick person. Centres on the problem of suffering. Shows that it is time for the sick person to be not merely an important concern for physicians but the central focus of medicine.
MoreLong description:
The Nature of Suffering underlines the change that is taking place in medicine from a basic concern with disease to a greater focus on the sick person as a whole. The author centres the discussion on the problem of suffering because he believes that its recognition and relief are a test of the adequacy of any system of medicine. The book includes many stories about patients to illustrate that there can be no diagnosis, search for causes, or treatment without consideration
of the individual sick person. This demonstrates that it is time for the sick person to be the central focus of medicine and th e author looks at the implications of such a change in attitude. This book will make interesting reading for all medical professionals as medical historians and
philosophers.
Table of Contents:
Ideas in conflict; 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; Epilogue: the care of the suffering patient.
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