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Healing through communication : the practice of caring / Carol Leppanen Montgomery.

<p>Being a patient is a unique interpersonal experience but it is also a universal human experience. The relationships formed when we are patients can also teach some of life's most important lessons, and these relationships provide a special window into ethics, especially the ethics of healthcare professionals. This book answers two basic questions: As patients see it, what things allow relationships with healthcare providers to become therapeutic? What can this teach us about healthcare ethics? This volume presents detailed descriptions and analyses of 50 interviews with 58 patients, representing a wide spectrum of illnesses and clinician specialties. The authors argue that the structure, rhythm, and horizon of routine patient care are ultimately grounded in patient vulnerability and clinician responsiveness. From the short interview segments, the longer vignettes and the full patient stories presented here emerge the neglected dimensions of healthcare and healthcare ethics. What becomes visible is an ethics of everyday interdependence, with mutual responsibilities that follow from this moral symbiosis. Both professional expressions of healthcare ethics and the field of bioethics need to be informed and reformed by this distinctive, more patient-centered, turn in how we understand both patient care as a whole and the ethics of care more specifically. The final chapters present revised codes of ethics for health professionals, as well as the implications for medical and health professions education.</p>

What patients teach : the everyday ethics of health care / Larry R. Churchill, Joseph B. Fanning, and David Schenck.

An introduction to psychological care in nursing and the health professions / by Helena Priest.

How people change : the short story as case history / William Tucker.

Narrative based medicine : dialogue and discourse in clinical practice / edited by Trisha Greenhalgh, Brian Hurwitz.

Routledge advances in the medical humanities

Meaning-making methods for coping with serious illness / Fereshteh Ahmadi and Nader Ahmadi.

xviii, 263 pages : black and white illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm

The medieval Islamic hospital : medicine, religion, and charity / Ahmed Ragab, Harvard University.

Routledge studies in the social history of medicine

Madness, architecture, and the built environment : psychiatric spaces in historical context / edited by Leslie Topp, James E. Moran, and Jonathan Andrews.

Patient narrative series

Nothing personal : disturbing undercurrents in cancer care / Mitzi Blennerhassett ; foreword by Karol Sikora.

Studies in medical anthropology

Abject relations : everyday worlds of anorexia / Megan Warin.

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Healing through communication : the practice of caring / Carol Leppanen Montgomery.

What patients teach : the everyday ethics of health care / Larry R. Churchill, Joseph B. Fanning, and David Schenck.

An introduction to psychological care in nursing and the health professions / by Helena Priest.

How people change : the short story as case history / William Tucker.

Narrative based medicine : dialogue and discourse in clinical practice / edited by Trisha Greenhalgh, Brian Hurwitz.

Meaning-making methods for coping with serious illness / Fereshteh Ahmadi and Nader Ahmadi.

The medieval Islamic hospital : medicine, religion, and charity / Ahmed Ragab, Harvard University.

Madness, architecture, and the built environment : psychiatric spaces in historical context / edited by Leslie Topp, James E. Moran, and Jonathan Andrews.

Nothing personal : disturbing undercurrents in cancer care / Mitzi Blennerhassett ; foreword by Karol Sikora.

Abject relations : everyday worlds of anorexia / Megan Warin.

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Healing through communication : the practice of caring / Carol Leppanen Montgomery.

What patients teach : the everyday ethics of health care / Larry R. Churchill, Joseph B. Fanning, and David Schenck.

An introduction to psychological care in nursing and the health professions / by Helena Priest.

How people change : the short story as case history / William Tucker.

Narrative based medicine : dialogue and discourse in clinical practice / edited by Trisha Greenhalgh, Brian Hurwitz.

Meaning-making methods for coping with serious illness / Fereshteh Ahmadi and Nader Ahmadi.

The medieval Islamic hospital : medicine, religion, and charity / Ahmed Ragab, Harvard University.

Madness, architecture, and the built environment : psychiatric spaces in historical context / edited by Leslie Topp, James E. Moran, and Jonathan Andrews.

Nothing personal : disturbing undercurrents in cancer care / Mitzi Blennerhassett ; foreword by Karol Sikora.

Abject relations : everyday worlds of anorexia / Megan Warin.

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