Patients Are People : : A Medical-Social Approach to Prolonged Illness / / Minna Field.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Field, Minna,
• MitwirkendeR: Bluestone, E. M.,; Hart, James C.,; Kessler, Henry H.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1967]; ©1967
• Year of Publication: 1967
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (294 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Foreword --; Foreword to the Second Edition --; Foreword to the Third Edition --; Acknowledgments --; Acknowledgments to the Third Edition --; Contents --; Chapter I. Introductory Statement --; Chapter II. Evolution of a Concept --; Chapter III. The Extent of the Problem --; Chapter IV. Ravages of Prolonged Illness --; Chapter V. The Meaning of Hospitalization --; Chapter VI. Posthospital Adjustment --; Chapter VII. Learning to Live with the Illness --; Chapter VIII. Rehabilitation as Part of Total Medical Care --; Chapter IX. The Impact of Illness on the Family --; Chapter X. A Long-range View --; Reading References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231887779; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/fiel92250
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Minna Field.

Examines the impact of longer life expectancy, chronic illness, rehabilitation and hospitalization on the patient to improve care.