Suffering and Healing in America

An American Doctor's View from Outside

Raymond Downing, Beverley Hancock (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

136 Seiten

2006
CRC Press (Verlag)
978-1-84619-130-5 (ISBN)

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This book contains a forword by Ron Pust, Professor of Family Medicine, University of Arizona, USA. Written by a practicing physician with 30 years experience both in America and Africa, "Suffering and Healing in America" takes a critical look at Western health care and examines its weaknesses. With a thought provoking rather than prescriptive approach, this extraordinary book offers a new reasoning in health care: learning from history and traditional cultures. "Suffering and Healing in America" will be of great interest to all health care professionals and researchers with an interest in public health. Religious and spiritual leaders will find this book a source of inspiration, and policy makers and shapers worldwide will find plenty to inform and guide their thoughts on the future of health care in America and beyond. 'It doesn't matter whether you are a provider or a consumer of health care, whether in the USA or outside, this book continues to draw keenly reflective cultural insights to challenge us all. America has money and science, but we may have abandoned the spiritual and social context of our lives and deaths. In Africa, and in many other places on our planet, it is quite the opposite. I invite you to explore these contrasts with Ray Downing. This book's lessons have much to teach us.' - Ron Pust, in the Foreword.

Raymond Downing, Beverley Hancock

Introduction. Health. Paradigms. Hubris. Ethics. Suffering. Chronic Disease - 1. Chronic Disease - 2. Treatment. Healing. Family Practice. Prevention - 1. Prevention - 2. Culture. Learning. Poverty.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.9.2006
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	305 x 152 mm
Gewicht	249 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Trennung / Trauer
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10	1-84619-130-0 / 1846191300
ISBN-13	978-1-84619-130-5 / 9781846191305
Zustand	Neuware