Whole Person Care A New Paradigm for the 21st Century /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hutchinson, Tom A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Edition: 1.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Anesthesiology.; General practice (Medicine).; Internal medicine.; Geriatrics.; Neurology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Geriatrics/Gerontology.; Internal Medicine.; General Practice / Family Medicine.

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 '...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Foreword
• Whole person care
• Suffering, whole person care, and the goals of medicine
• The healing journey
• The challenge of medical dichotomies and the congruent physician / patient relationship in medicine
• Separation-attachment theory in illness and the role of the healthcare practitioner
• Empathy, compassion and the goals of medicine
• Mindfulness and whole person care
• Healing, wounding, and the language of medicine
• Death anxiety: the challenge and the promise of whole person care
• Whole person self-care: self-care from the inside out
• Prevention and whole person care
• Whole person care and complementary and alternative therapies
• Spiritual dimensions of whole person care
• Whole person care and the revolution in genetics
• Whole person care on a busy medical ward
• Teaching whole person care in medical school
• Whole person care, professionalism, and the medical mandate
• Whole person care: Conclusions
• Appendix.