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

By Tom A. Hutchinson

Book Overview

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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441994394
• ISBN13: 9781441994394
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.4"