Compassion and Healing in Medicine and Society: On the Nature and Use of Attachment Solutions to Separation Challenges

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Edition: 1
Release: 2011-11-01
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 1421402203
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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Reconciling the scientific principles of medicine with the love essential for meaningful care is not an easy task, but it is one that Gregory L. Fricchione performs masterfully in Compassion and Healing in Medicine and Society. At the core of this book is a thought-provoking analysis of the relationship between evolutionary science and neuroscience. Fricchione theorizes that the cries for attachment made by seriously ill patients reflect an underlying evolutionary tenet called the separation challenge–attachment solution process. The pleadings of patients, he explains, are verbal expressions of the history of evolution itself. By exploring the roots of a patient’s attachment needs, we come face to face with a critical component of natural selection and the evolutionary process. Medicine engages with the separation challenge–attachment solution process on many levels of scientific knowledge and human meaning and healing. Fricchione applies these concepts to medical care and encou Download Compassion and Healing in Medicine and Society for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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