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Constructing Mindful Dialogues in Healthcare

A Phenomenological Study

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Throughout the ages, people have always been cared for at home when they have become ill or disabled. However, in Western society, the introduction of hospitals and the hegemony of specialist medical practices over the last century may have affected the place of community-based healthcare within healthcare systems.

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Tasker, D., Higgs, J. (2017). Constructing Mindful Dialogues in Healthcare. In: Tasker, D., Higgs, J., Loftus, S. (eds) Community-Based Healthcare. Practice, Education, Work and Society. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-995-9_2

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