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Empathy and the Practice of Medicine : Beyond Pills and the Scalpel |
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From Book News, Inc.
This collection of essays--by physicians, philosophers, and a nurse--is divided into three parts dealing with how empathy is weakened or lost during the course of medical education and how to remedy this loss; the historical and philosophical origins of empathy and arguments for and against it; and accounts of how physicians' empathy for their patients has affected their own lives and the lives of those in their care. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portlan... >> |
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Speaking of Health: Assessing Health Communication Strategies for Diverse Populations |
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From Book News, Inc.
Central to this study are three test cases that illustrate the problems and methods common to public health communication. The example of a public health campaign illustrates communication methods, mammography screening is given as the example of a public health problem, and disease management is examined through the case of diabetes mellitus. The health communication strategies employed in all three cases are examined with chapters on technology, definitions... >> |
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First, Do No Harm: Power, Oppression, and Violence in Healthcare |
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From Book News, Inc.
Applying interpretive phenomenology to a criticism of healthcare practice, five papers exploring issues of power, violence, and oppression in medicine are presented by Diekelmann (nursing, U. of Wisconsin at Madison). Among the arguments advanced are assertions that quality of life standards are highly subjective and often serve to justify unequal and oppressive disparities of power, that disconnections between patients and caring nonpatients in critical illnes... >> |
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