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1 online resource (257 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Studies in Medical Philosophy
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Studies in medical philosophy.
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| Contents |
Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction: A Systems Analysis of Medicine (SAM); Chapter One: The STS Toolbox; Overview; Resource. 2; Technical Programs; Social Community Programs; Ethics: Doing the Right Thing; The STS Range; The STS Conversation; Thematic Contrast Issues; Bioethics; Responsible Social Action; Characteristics of Successful Social Action; Results; Conclusion; Chapter Two: Persons Exist in Relationships; Overview; A phenomenological analysis of religious faith; What is a person?; Conclusion; In Summary; Chapter Three: Dialogic Spirituality; Overview; Introduction |
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A system-based approach to medicineWhat is spirituality?; Discussion Note; The religious tendency towards good, God, and eternal life manifests itself in the spiritual nature of the personmaking process.; Spirituality and personalized medicine; Conclusion; Glossary of Terms; Questions to assess broken spiritual associations on the arm of the carbon-self; Questions to assess broken spiritual associations on the arm of the social-self.; Questions to assess broken spiritual associations on the arm of the internal-self; Summary: How to Conduct a Spiritual Assessment |
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Chapter Four: Why Ethics MattersOverview; Introduction; Ethics regulates relationships; Dialogical Ethical Theories; The Oath of Hippocrates; Abortion; AMA PRINCIPLES OF MEDICAL ETHICS; Social Action; Palliative Care; Case Studies in Healthcare; Chapter Five: The Absolute Truth Value of Human Death; Overview; Conclusion; Conclusion; Works Cited; Index |
| Summary |
This book is a must read for anyone interested in transforming the impersonal character of the medical experience into a personalized, relational, spiritual, and holistic dialogue about human health. It promotes a holistic vision of the doctor-patient relationship, a medicine that ought to be based on the totality of the human experience rather than on the reductive view of the patient as a person with a certain disease. Ken A. Bryson describes the character of medicine as the gateway to holistic healing and argues that we need to secure the ethical foundation of universal medicine as not relative to a cultural setting, thus establishing the Oath of Hippocrates as the universal gateway to human dignity. This view emboldens us to raise medicine from the level of an impersonal technological encounter with disease to its rightful place as a sacred activity that includes all the levels of the human experience. The book offers practical suggestions on how to accomplish that objective. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Physician and patient.
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Physician and patient. |
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Social medicine.
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Social medicine. |
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Medical ethics.
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Medical ethics. |
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Medicine -- Religious aspects.
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Medicine -- Religious aspects. |
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Medicine -- Philosophy.
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Medicine -- Philosophy. |
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System analysis.
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System analysis. |
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systems analysis. |
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism. |
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference. |
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MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine. |
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MEDICAL -- Atlases. |
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MEDICAL -- Essays. |
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MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice. |
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MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine. |
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MEDICAL -- Osteopathy. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bryson, Ken A. A Systems Analysis of Medicine (SAM) : Healing Medicine. La Vergne : Ibidem Press, ©2019 |
| ISBN |
3838272676 |
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9783838272672 (electronic book) |
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