The nature of suffering and the goals of medicine / Eric J. Cassell.
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| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xx, 313 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.