Overview
- Pays special attention to patients as “persons” and not as “disease carriers”
- Describes the new, complementary approaches to patients: the new humanism, narrative medicine,
- Underlines the dialogue between medicine and philosophy,
Part of the book series: New Paradigms in Healthcare (NPH)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Between the Doctor and the Patient
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The Patient as a Person and the Disease
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About this book
In the current era, evidence-based medicine and various supporting technologies dominate everyday clinical practice, according to a disease-centred, as opposed to patient-centred, approach. They have obviously improved the clinical management of diseases and it is therefore unreasonable to think of a medicine in which they are not considered fundamental. In fact, the strength of the new medicine should be to adapt scientific knowledge to a specific clinical case.
This book therefore looks at the prospect of a new 'person' centred medicine, which stands alongside the 'disease' and 'patient' centred medicine, which pays special attention to the subjectivity of scientific knowledge and the relationship between doctor and patient. It is important to emphasise that this book is written by several hands, i.e. by experts from different fields, doctors, philosophers, architects, sociologists, art critics, physicists and engineers. This is with the intention of providing as broad a perspective as possible on the doctor-patient relationship.
Due to its translational and multicultural approach to the subject, the book will be of interest to a wide readership, from medical experts to students, psychologists, philosophers and institutional actors.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Alessandro Pingitore graduated in Medicine and Surgery, and later obtained a PhD in Cardiovascular Physiopathology and a postdoctoral qualification in Cardiovascular Disease. He is currently a permanent scientist at the CNR Institute of Clinical Physiology. His main research fields are the assessment of cardiac function and morphology using non-invasive cardiac imaging, the relationship between thyroid hormone and the heart, and the physiological response to strenuous physical stress in normal or extreme environments. He also has a strong interest in quality of-life related initiatives, wellbeing and cardiovascular prevention. He is author of 178 scientific peer’reviewd articles, 5 books, and 15 book chapters. H Index is 40 (Scopus Source) and overall citations are 6689 (Scopus Source).
Alfonso Maurizio Iacono is professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Pisa. He also taught Philosophy of Science at the University of Rome 1 (Sapienza) and philosophy at the Université de Paris 1 (Sorbonne-Panthéon). He is ex-Dean of the "Facoltà di Lettere e filosofia" of the same University (2003-2009); ex-President of Sistema Museale d’Ateneo (2015-2017). His interests are about relationships among philosophy, politics and anthropology from XVIIIth to XXth century.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Patient as a Person
Book Subtitle: An Integrated and Systemic Approach to Patient and Disease
Editors: Alessandro Pingitore, Alfonso Maurizio Iacono
Series Title: New Paradigms in Healthcare
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23852-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-23851-2Published: 21 March 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-23854-3Published: 22 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-23852-9Published: 20 March 2023
Series ISSN: 2731-3247
Series E-ISSN: 2731-3255
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 253
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Health Care Management, Medicine/Public Health, general, Bioethics, Public Health, Medicine/Public Health, general