The Chief Concern Of Medicine

Author : Ronald Schleifer
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472028863
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chief Concern of Medicine written by Ronald Schleifer and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike any existing studies of the medical humanities, The Chief Concern of Medicinebrings to the examination of medical practices a thorough---and clearly articulated---exposition of the nature of narrative. The book builds on the work of linguistics, semiotics, narratology, and discourse theory and examines numerous literary works and narrative "vignettes" of medical problems, situations, and encounters. Throughout, the book presents usable expositions of the ways storytelling organizes itself to allow physicians and other healthcare workers (and even patients themselves) to be more attentive to and self-conscious about the information---the "narrative knowledge"---of the patient's story.

Author : Ronald Schleifer
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030191281
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature and Medicine written by Ronald Schleifer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-09 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature and Medicine: A Practical and Pedagogical Guide is designed to introduce narrative medicine in medical humanities courses aimed at pre-medicine undergraduates and medical and healthcare students. With excerpts from short stories, novels, memoirs, and poems, the book guides students on the basic methods and concepts of the study of narrative. The book helps healthcare professionals to build a set of skills and knowledge central to the practice of medicine including an understanding of professionalism, building the patient-physician relationship, ethics of medical practice, the logic of diagnosis, recognizing mistakes in medical practice, and diversity of experience. In addition to analyzing and considering the literary texts, each chapter includes a vignette taken from clinical situations to help define and illustrate the chapter’s theme. Literature and Medicine illustrates the ways that engagement with the humanities in general, and literature in particular, can create better and more fulfilled physicians and caretakers.

Author : Heather Hofmann
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN 13 : 0323986722
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Communication Skills and Challenges in Medical Practice, An Issue of Medical Clinics of North America, E-Book written by Heather Hofmann and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2022-06-23 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this issue of Medical Clinics of North America, guest editor Dr. Heather Hofmann brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Communication Skills and Challenges in Medical Practice. Communication is a core part of medical practice, and just as physicians increase their knowledge and hone clinical reasoning skills, so too must communication skills be refined. This issue provides an evidence-based review of patient-centered communication for the general practitioner, covering key communications skills commonly used in patient encounters, including challenges posed by modern medicine to effective communication. Contains 15 relevant, practice-oriented topics including addressing the challenges of cross-cultural communication; gender and health communication; eliciting the patient narrative; motivating behavioral change; breaking bad news; using technology to enhance communication; and more. Provides in-depth clinical reviews on communication skills and challenges in medical practice, offering actionable insights for clinical practice. Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.

Author : P. Crawford
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137282614
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Health Humanities written by P. Crawford and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first manifesto for Health Humanities worldwide. It sets out the context for this emergent and innovative field which extends beyond Medical Humanities to advance the inclusion and impact of the arts and humanities in healthcare, health and well-being.

Author : James Le Fanu
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780786709670
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine written by James Le Fanu and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2002-01-18 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years following World War II, medicine won major battles against smallpox, diphtheria, and polio. In the same period it also produced treatments to control the progress of Parkinson's, rheumatoid arthritis, and schizophrenia. It made realities of open-heart surgery, organ transplants, test-tube babies. Unquestionably, the medical accomplishments of the postwar years stand at the forefront of human endeavor, yet progress in recent decades has slowed nearly to a halt. In this winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, medical doctor and columnist James Le Fanu both surveys the glories of medicine in the postwar years and analyzes the factors that for the past twenty-five years have increasingly widened the gulf between achievement and advancement: the social theories of medicine, ethical issues, and political debates over health care that have hobbled the development of vaccines and discovery of new "miracle" cures. While fully demonstrating the extraordinary progress effected by medical research in the latter half of the twentieth century, Le Fanu also identifies the perils that confront medicine in the twenty-first. 16 pages of black-and-white photographs add to what the Los Angeles Times cited as "a sobering, contrarian challenge" to the "nostrum of medicine as a never-ending font of ‘miracle cures'." "[From] a respected science writer ... important information that ... has been overlooked or ignored by many physicians." —New Republic "Provocative and engrossing and informative." —Houston Chronicle "Marvelously written, meticulously researched ... one of the most thought-provoking and important works to appear in recent years." —Choice

Author : Stephen J. Ettinger
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN 13 : 032377928X
Total Pages : 2698 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ettinger’s Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine - eBook written by Stephen J. Ettinger and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2024-01-03 with total page 2698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now Ettinger’s trusted, all-in-one veterinary resource is even better! Trusted by small animal veterinarians for more than 45 years, Ettinger’s Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine adds new content on the field’s leading issues and trends to its unmatched, “gold standard coverage of the diagnosis and treatment of medical problems of dogs and cats.

Author : David Loxterkamp
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 047211865X
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Matters in Medicine written by David Loxterkamp and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2013-02-18 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An honest and insightful reflection on lessons learned about primary care from a life as a small town doctor

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
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Download or read book Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Milton Joseph Rosenau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Progress and Problems in Preventive Medicine written by Milton Joseph Rosenau and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: