Whole Person Care

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiv

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2. Whole Person Care

   • Tom A. Hutchinson

   Pages 1-8

3. Suffering, Whole Person Care, and the Goals of Medicine

   • Eric J. Cassell

   Pages 9-22

4. The Healing Journey

   • Tom A. Hutchinson, Balfour M. Mount, Michael Kearney

   Pages 23-30

5. The Challenge of Medical Dichotomies and the Congruent Physician–Patient Relationship in Medicine

   • Tom A. Hutchinson, James R. Brawer

   Pages 31-43

6. Separation–Attachment Theory in Illness and the Role of the Healthcare Practitioner

   • Gregory Fricchione

   Pages 45-58

7. Empathy, Compassion, and the Goals of Medicine

   • Stephen Liben

   Pages 59-67

8. Mindfulness and Whole Person Care

   • Patricia L. Dobkin

   Pages 69-82

9. Healing, Wounding, and the Language of Medicine

   • Abraham Fuks

   Pages 83-95

10. Death Anxiety: The Challenge and the Promise of Whole Person Care

    • Sheldon Solomon, Krista Lawlor

    Pages 97-107

11. Whole Person Self-Care: Self-Care from the Inside Out

    • Michael Kearney, Radhule Weininger

    Pages 109-125

12. Prevention and Whole Person Care

    • Tom A. Hutchinson

    Pages 127-132

13. Whole Person Care and Complementary and Alternative Therapies

    • Mary Grossman

    Pages 133-147

14. Spiritual Dimensions of Whole Person Care

    • Abdu’l-Missagh Ghadirian

    Pages 149-160

15. Whole Person Care and the Revolution in Genetics

    • David S. Rosenblatt, Jennifer Fitzpatrick

    Pages 161-172

16. Whole Person Care on a Busy Medical Ward

    • Gordon L. Crelinsten

    Pages 173-181

17. Teaching Whole Person Care in Medical School

    • Helen Mc Namara, J. Donald Boudreau

    Pages 183-200

18. Whole Person Care, Professionalism, and the Medical Mandate

    • Richard L. Cruess, Sylvia R. Cruess

    Pages 201-207

19. Whole Person Care: Conclusions

    • Tom A. Hutchinson

    Pages 209-217

20. Back Matter

    Pages 219-234

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A ground-breaking new volume and the first of its kind to concisely outline and explicate the emerging field of whole person care process, Whole Person Care: A New Paradigm for the 21st Century organizes the disparate strains of literature on the topic. It does so by clarifying the concept of 'whole person' and also by outlining the challenges and opportunities that death anxiety poses to the practice of whole person care. Whole person care seeks to study, understand and promote the role of health care in relieving suffering and promoting healing in acute and chronic illness as a complement to the disease focus of biomedicine. The focus is on the whole person -- physical, emotional, social, and spiritual. Using concise, easy-to-read language, the early chapters offer practitioners a thorough understanding of the concepts, skills and tools necessary for the practice of whole person care from a clinician-patient interaction standpoint, while the last two chapters review the myriad implications of whole person care for medical practice. An invaluable resource for all areas of medical practice and for practitioners at all stages of development, from medical students to physicians and allied health providers with many years of experience, Whole Person Care: A New Paradigm for the 21st Century will have a profound impact on western medical practice in North America and elsewhere.

• Compassion
• Death Anxiety
• Empathy
• Healing
• Language of medicine
• Narrative Medicine
• Palliative Medicine
• Physician-patient
• Professional-patient relationship
• Rhetoric of medicine
• Self-care
• Separation and attachment theory
• Whole Person Care
• Wounding

From the reviews:

“The book is written by and for physicians (and medical students) and explores the existential challenges of the illness experience, the healing process and the nature of the clinical interaction. … This is a thought-provoking book. … this volume has provided many opportunities for reflection. I also found the extensive and up-to-date references very useful. I would recommend this book to those wanting to develop their own practice or to teach others.” (Ofra Fried, Royal Australasian College of Physicians, February, 2012)

“‘It is the internal resources of the individual persons who become patients that constitute the major untapped resource that the whole person care and medicine needs to harness effectively in the twenty-first century.’ … The audience is everyone who is in the practice of medicine … consumer of medical practice. … the book is a very easy read … . extremely worthwhile book to sensitize students to how medicine became what it is today, making it essential to every library associated with a teaching program.” (Vincent F. Carr, Doody's Book Reviews, August, 2011)

• McGill Programs in Whole Person Care, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

  Tom A. Hutchinson

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