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ISBN: 0300066708
Empathy and the Practice of Medicine: Beyond Pills and the Scalpel
The treatment of medical illness today depends much more on science and technology than on the physician's ability to listen, comfort, and prescribe. Medical books Empathy and the Practice of Medicine. Medicine is not only increasingly technical but is also increasingly involved with legal, governmental, and insurance constraints on patient care, and this state of affairs has done much to distance physicians from their patients. This important book seeks to restore empathy to medical practice, to demonstrate how important it is for doctors to listen to their patients, to experience and understand what their patients are feeling. The book-a collection of essays by physicians, philosophers, and a nurse-is divided into three parts: one deals with how empathy is weakened or lost during the course of medical education and suggests how to remedy this; another describes the historical and philosophical origins of empathy and provides arguments for and against it; and a third section offers compelling accounts of how physicians' empathy for their patients has affected their own lives and the lives of those in their care. We hear, for example, from a physician working in a hospice who relates the ways that the staff tries to listen and respond to the needs of the dying; a scientist who interviews candidates for medical school and tells how qualities of empathy are undervalued by selection committees; a health professional who considers what her profession can teach physicians about empathy; another physician who ponders whether the desire to be empathic can hinder the detachment necessary for objective care; and several contributors who show how literature and art can help physicians to develop empathy Medical books Empathy and the Practice of Medicine. Empathy and the Practice of Medicine
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Empathy and the Practice of Medicine Beyond Pills and the Scalpel, ISBN-13: 9780300066708, ISBN-10: 0300066708
format paperback language english publication year 04 03 1996 subject medicine subject 2 medicine general title empathy and the practice of medicine beyond pills and the scalpel author spiro howard m curnen mary g mccrea editor peschel enid editor st james deborah editor publisher yale univ pr publication date mar 01 1996 pages 208 binding paperback edition reprint dimensions 6 25 wx 9 25 hx 0 75 d isbn 0300066708 subject medical physician patient brand new paperback all orders get full access
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Medical Book Empathy and the Practice of Medicine
Medicine is not only increasingly technical but is also increasingly involved with legal, governmental, and insurance constraints on patient care, and this state of affairs has done much to distance physicians from their patients. This important book seeks to restore empathy to medical practice, to demonstrate how important it is for doctors to listen to their patients, to experience and understand what their patients are feeling. The book-a collection of essays by physicians, philosophers, and a nurse-is divided into three parts: one deals with how empathy is weakened or lost during the course of medical education and suggests how to remedy this; another describes the historical and philosophical origins of empathy and provides arguments for and against it; and a third section offers compelling accounts of how physicians' empathy for their patients has affected their own lives and the lives of those in their care. We hear, for example, from a physician working in a hospice who relates the ways that the staff tries to listen and respond to the needs of the dying; a scientist who interviews candidates for medical school and tells how qualities of empathy are undervalued by selection committees; a health professional who considers what her profession can teach physicians about empathy; another physician who ponders whether the desire to be empathic can hinder the detachment necessary for objective care; and several contributors who show how literature and art can help physicians to develop empathy. Medicine, asserts most of these authors, is both science and narrative, reason and intuition. Empathy underlies the qualities of the humanistic physician and must frame the skills of all professionals who care for patients.
