Empathy and the Practice of Medicine: Beyond Pills and the Scalpel by Howard Spi

Description: Empathy and the Practice of Medicine by Howard Spiro, Enid Peschel, Mary G. McCrea Curnen, Deborah St James Seeking to restore empathy to medical practice, this book aims to demonstrate how important it is for doctors to listen to their patients, to experience and to understand what their patients are feeling. The book is a collection of essays by physicians, philosophers and a nurse. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The treatment of medical illness today depends much more on science and technology than on the physicians 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 their patients has affected their own lives and the lives of those in their care. We hear, for example, from a physician working in a hospice who relates the ways that the staff tries to listen and respond to the needs of the dying; a scientist who interviews candidates for medical school and tells how qualities of empathy are undervalued by selection committees; a health professional who considers what her profession can teach physicians about empathy; another physician who ponders whether the desire to be empathic can hinder the detachment necessary for objective care; and several contributors who show how literature and art can help physicians to develop empathy. Medicine, asserts most of these authors, is both science and narrative, reason and intuition. Empathy underlies the qualities of the humanistic physician and must frame the skills of all professionals who care for patients. Prepared under the auspices of the Program for Humanities in Medicine, Yale University School of Med Author Biography Howard Spiro, M.D., is Professor of Medicine Emeritus, Yale University School of Medicine. Details ISBN0300066708 Author Deborah St James Short Title EMPATHY & THE PRAC OF MEDICINE Publisher Yale University Press Language English ISBN-10 0300066708 ISBN-13 9780300066708 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 610.696 Year 1996 Imprint Yale University Press Edited by Deborah St James Country of Publication United States Pages 222 Illustrations black & white illustrations Subtitle Beyond Pills and the Scalpel Place of Publication New haven Edition Description Revised DOI 10.1604/9780300066708 AU Release Date 1996-02-21 NZ Release Date 1996-02-21 US Release Date 1996-02-21 UK Release Date 1996-02-21 Publication Date 1996-02-21 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:16782952;

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