Caring for Patients: A Critique of the Medical Model

Allen Barbour

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Caring for Patients

A Critique of the Medical Model

Allen Barbour

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1995

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"See your patient as a person, not a disease." This is the essential message of an experienced and compassionate physician who questions the prevailing medical model of patient care - that every illness has a physical cause that can be identified and treated medically - and who argues for the necessity of taking the psychological and social circumstances of the patient into account in the process of diagnosis and treatment.

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Medicine Assistive Professions, Nursing

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Author's Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
A Note to the Reader William C. Fowkes Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
PART I. The Need for a Person-Centered Perspective
1. The Limitations of the Medical Model Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	9
2. "What This Patient Needs Is a Doctor" 31 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	31
3. The Concept of Disease Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	45
4. Personal Illness: The Functional Disorders Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	58
5. Personal Illness: The Concept of Care Determines the Outcome Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	67
6. Diagnostic Strategies for Unrecognized Personal Illness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	81
7. Health Practices, Psychosocial Distress, and Organic Disease Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	96
8. Psychiatric Disorders: The Medical Model in Perspective Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	112
9. Psychiatric Disorders: Is Feeling Depressed a Disease? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	135
10. Barriers to Person-Centered Care Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	151
PART II. Emotions and Emotional Symptoms
11. Cognitive/Emotional Dissociation: A Common Cause of Illness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	163
12. Emotionally Induced Physical Symptoms Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	179
13. Functional Syndromes: Differential Diagnosis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	204
PART III. Person-Centered Care
14. Collaboration Begins: The Medical History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	257
15. Misunderstandings and Hidden Issues Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	278
16. Collaboration Continues: First Talks About Persona/Illness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	287
17. The Core of the Collaboration: The Personal Interview Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	301
18. Engaging the Patient Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	327
Literature Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	339
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	387

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January 21, 2022

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9781503615496

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420

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503615496

eBook ISBN: 9781503615496

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Policy; Science

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College/higher education;

Caring for Patients

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