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The Nature of Healing - The Modern Practice of Medicine (Hardcover)
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The Nature of Healing - The Modern Practice of Medicine (Hardcover)
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Currently and for centuries past, sickness has been understood to
be primarily the physical result of bodily disease. Yet this
definition of illness is out-of-date and untrue to life at a time
when chronic illness and the problems of disability and aging are
increasingly common. When persons are sick, it pervades their whole
being. The Nature of Healing is based on a different definition of
sickness, one that recognizes persons as sick when they cannot
achieve their goals and purposes because of impairments of
function, ranging from the molecular to the spiritual, which they
believe to fall under the scope of medicine. Such impairments may
result from disease, but certainly not all.
As the sick person has increasingly become the focus of medicine,
there have been repeated but mostly failed attempts to achieve both
technological and humanistic goals in caring for patients. This
approach is flawed because there is only one ultimate goal -- the
well-being of the patient. Whether it involves the personal action
of the clinician or the use of technology, everything done toward
the goal of well-being is part of the healing enterprise. In this
book, Eric Cassell explores what sickness is, what persons are, and
how to understand function and its impairments. He explains healing
skills and actions, as well as the nature of healing for sick and
suffering patients. This book concludes with a discussion of the
moral basis of the relationship between patient and healer, as well
as the goals of healing.
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