Doctors and Patients

Strategies in Long-term Illness

J. Bergsma (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

202 Seiten

1997 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997
Springer (Verlag)
978-0-7923-4395-0 (ISBN)

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Patients have personal strategies in solving the problems concerning their illness. This book explores the problematic triangle between doctors, patients and the illness, using illustrations from internal medicine, nephrology, cardiology, oncology and neurology.

Patients have personal strategies in solving the problems concerning their illness. Doctors have personal and professional strategies in solving the problems with their patients. This book explores the problematic triangle between doctors, patients and the illness, using illustrations from internal medicine, nephrology, cardiology, oncology and neurology.
Enhancement of the doctor-patient interaction is an important contribution to the mutual reduction of stress and therefore the improvement of the course of (long-term) illness.
The first part of the book describes reasons why the partnership between doctor and patient should be improved. The second part offers concrete and practical options to achieve that improvement.

I. Why we should do it in another way.- 1. Disease and illness, perceptual perspectives.- 2. Identity, problem-solving and autonomy.- 3. The object and the subject.- II. How to do it in a different way.- 4. Communication, stress reduction and decision-making.- 5. The patients’ stories.- 6. The meaning of trauma.- Epilogue.

Zusatzinfo	202 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 240 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
ISBN-10	0-7923-4395-6 / 0792343956
ISBN-13	978-0-7923-4395-0 / 9780792343950
Zustand	Neuware