Whole Person Care

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

From the reviews:

"The book is written by and for physicians (and medical students) and explores the existential challenges of the illness experience, the healing process and the nature of the clinical interaction. ... This is a thought-provoking book. ... this volume has provided many opportunities for reflection. I also found the extensive and up-to-date references very useful. I would recommend this book to those wanting to develop their own practice or to teach others." (Ofra Fried, Royal Australasian College of Physicians, February, 2012)"'It is the internal resources of the individual persons who become patients that constitute the major untapped resource that the whole person care and medicine needs to harness effectively in the twenty-first century.' ... The audience is everyone who is in the practice of medicine ... consumer of medical practice. ... the book is a very easy read ... . extremely worthwhile book to sensitize students to how medicine became what it is today, making it essential to every library associated with a teaching program." (Vincent F. Carr, Doody's Book Reviews, August, 2011)

From the reviews:

"The book is written by and for physicians (and medical students) and explores the existential challenges of the illness experience, the healing process and the nature of the clinical interaction. ... This is a thought-provoking book. ... this volume has provided many opportunities for reflection. I also found the extensive and up-to-date references very useful. I would recommend this book to those wanting to develop their own practice or to teach others." (Ofra Fried, Royal Australasian College of Physicians, February, 2012)
"'It is the internal resources of the individual persons who become patients that constitute the major untapped resource that the whole person care and medicine needs to harness effectively in the twenty-first century.' ... The audience is everyone who is in the practice of medicine ... consumer of medical practice. ... the book is a very easy read ... . extremely worthwhile book to sensitize students to how medicine became what it is today, making it essential to every library associated with a teaching program." (Vincent F. Carr, Doody's Book Reviews, August, 2011)