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Edition: Reprint
Release: 1996-02-21
Publisher: Yale University Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0300066708
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB
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The treatment of medical illness today depends much more on science and technology than on the physician's ability to listen, comfort, and prescribe. 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 t Download Empathy and the Practice of Medicine for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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