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Citation
(2005), "The Healing Tradition - Reviving the Soul of Western Medicine", International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Vol. 18 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijhcqa.2005.06218cae.001
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2005, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
The Healing Tradition - Reviving the Soul of Western Medicine
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The Healing Tradition – Reviving the Soul of Western Medicine
David GreavesRadcliffe Publishing2004ISBN 1 85775 963 X
Keywords: Health and medicine, Integration
The Healing Tradition argues that Western medicine is fundamentally flawed because it fails to provide a healing environment for both individuals and society, and indicates potential ways to correct this through an integration model of medical humanities. All health professionals and those with an interest in medical humanities will find this book invaluable reading.
Contents include:
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Sudden infant deaths: models of health and illness;
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What are heart attacks?;
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Conceptions of persons and dementia;
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The tradition of the healer;
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The enduring appeal of the Victorian family doctor;
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Changing priorities in residential medicine and social services;
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Contrasting perspectives of inequalities in health and medical care;
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The creation of partial patients;
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The nature and role of medical humanities;
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Biomedical and humoral and alternative systems of medicine; and
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Reflections on a new medical cosmology.