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Medicine of the Person : Faith, Science, and Values in Health Care Provision

International and multi-faith in scope, this important text engages with the need to integrate the scientific basis of healthcare more fully with spiritual, religious and ethical values. Based on the principle of 'medicine of the person', an attitude that embeds personal relationships and ethics in medical practice, the text considers the ideas of Paul Tournier, an influential figure whose thinking has had a substantial impact on the spiritual and psychosocial aspects of routine patient care, particularly in national health services. Bridging the gap between the basic sciences and faith traditions, the contributors cover notions of personhood in different faiths, and its consideration in spirituality and mental health issues, general practice issues, public health, home care for the elderly and neuroscience. This volume offers a broad spectrum of approaches to the needs of patients that is central to the students of the health disciplines and managers in these fields
eBook, English, 2007
Jessica Kingsley, London, 2007
Fulltext
1 online resource (239 pages) : illustrations
9781846425509, 1846425506
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Introduction : At the heart of healing / Bill (K.W.M.) Fulford, Alastair V. Campbell, John Cox
pt. I: Medicine of the person, Paul Tournier's vision. The man and his message / Hans-Rudolf Pfeifer and John Cox
Retaining the person in medical science / Bernard Rüedi
The Bible and medical practice / John Clark
The value of values : Do they go deep enough? / Martin Conway
pt. 2: Faith traditions and the medicine of the person. The Christian tradition of spiritual direction as a sketch for a strong theology of diversity / Robert Atwell and Bill (K.W.M.) Fulford
Personhood in health care : Jewish approaches / Claire Hilton and Michael Hilton
The individual versus the family : an Islamic and traditional societies perspective / Ahmed Okasha
Hindu and Ayurvedic understandings of the person / Dinesh Bhugra
pt. 3: Medicine of the person in contemporary practice. Spirituality and mental health : practical proposals for action / Peter Gilbert
Beyond the solitude for two : justice, theology, and general practice / Thierry Collaud
Spirituality and care : a public health perspective / Tom Fryers
The re-emergence of home health care : a holistic response to aging and consumer empowerment / Mike Magee
Neuroscience and belief : a Christian perspective / Andrew Sims
Bibliography of books by Paul Tournier / Hans-Rudolf Pfeifer