Whole Person Care. A New Paradigm for the 21st Century (Hardcover)

ABOUT THIS BOOK

• Targeted review of theoretical and clinical foundations of whole person care
• Offers practitioners a comprehensive understanding of the concepts, skills and tools necessary for the practice of whole person care
• Relevant to all areas of medical practice and to practitioners at all stages of development

A ground-breaking new volume and the first of its kind to concisely outline and explicate the emerging field of whole person care process, Whole Person Care: A New Paradigm for the 21st Century organizes the disparate strains of literature on the topic. It does so by clarifying the concept of 'whole person' and also by outlining the challenges and opportunities that death anxiety poses to the practice of whole person care. Whole person care seeks to study, understand and promote the role of health care in relieving suffering and promoting healing in acute and chronic illness as a complement to the disease focus of biomedicine. The focus is on the whole person -- physical, emotional, social, and spiritual. Using concise, easy-to-read language, the early chapters offer practitioners a thorough understanding of the concepts, skills and tools necessary for the practice of whole person care from a clinician-patient interaction standpoint, while the last two chapters review the myriad implications of whole person care for medical practice. An invaluable resource for all areas of medical practice and for practitioners at all stages of development, from medical students to physicians and allied health providers with many years of experience, Whole Person Care: A New Paradigm for the 21st Century will have a profound impact on western medical practice in North America and elsewhere.

Content Level » Professional/practitioner
Keywords » Compassion - Death Anxiety - Empathy - Healing - Language of medicine - Narrative Medicine - Palliative Medicine - Physician-patient - Professional-patient relationship - Rhetoric of medicine - Self-care - Separation and attachment theory - Whole Person Care - Wounding
Related subjects » Anesthesiology - Family & Geriatric Medicine - Internal Medicine - Medicine - Neurology

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Acknowledgments
  Tom A. Hutchinson
• Preface
  Tom A. Hutchinson
• Foreword
  Balfour M. Mount
• 1. Whole person care
  Tom A. Hutchinson
• 2. Suffering, whole person care, and the goals of medicine
  Eric J. Cassell
• 3. The healing journey
  Tom A. Hutchinson, Balfour M. Mount, Michael Kearney
• 4. The challenge of medical dichotomies and the congruent physician / patient relationship in medicine
  Tom A. Hutchinson, James R. Brawer
• 5. Separation-attachment theory in illness and the role of the healthcare practitioner
  Gregory Fricchione
• 6. Empathy, compassion and the goals of medicine
  Stephen Liben
• 7. Mindfulness and whole person care
  Patricia L. Dobkin
• 8. Healing, wounding, and the language of medicine
  Abraham Fuks
• 9. Death anxiety: the challenge and the promise of whole person care
  Sheldon Solomon, Krista Lawlor
• 10. Whole person self-care: self-care from the inside out
  Michael Kearney, Radhule Weininger
• 11. Prevention and whole person care
  Tom A. Hutchinson
• 12. Whole person care and complementary and alternative therapies
  Mary Grossman
• 13. Spiritual dimensions of whole person care
  Abdu’l-Missagh Ghadirian
• 14. Whole person care and the revolution in genetics
  David S. Rosenblatt, Jennifer Fitzpatrick
• 15. Whole person care on a busy medical ward
  Gordon L. Crelinsten
• 16. Teaching whole person care in medical school
  Helen Mc Namara, J. Donald Boudreau
• 17. Whole person care, professionalism, and the medical mandate
  Richard L. Cruess, Sylvia R. Cruess
• 18. Whole person care: Conclusions
  Tom A. Hutchinson
• Appendix; The nature of persons and clinical medicine
  Eric J. Cassell