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Author Barbour, Allen B., 1918-1993.

Title Caring for patients : a critique of the medical model / Allen B. Barbour
Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [1995]
©1995

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Description xviii, 397 pages ; 25 cm
Contents 1. The Limitations of the Medical Model -- 2. "What This Patient Needs Is a Doctor" -- 3. The Concept of Disease -- 4. Personal Illness: The Functional Disorders -- 5. Personal Illness: The Concept of Care Determines the Outcome -- 6. Diagnostic Strategies for Unrecognized Personal Illness -- 7. Health Practices, Psychosocial Distress, and Organic Disease -- 8. Psychiatric Disorders: The Medical Model in Perspective -- 9. Psychiatric Disorders: Is Feeling Depressed a Disease? -- 10. Barriers to Person-Centered Care -- 11. Cognitive/Emotional Dissociation: A Common Cause of Illness -- 12. Emotionally Induced Physical Symptoms -- 13. Functional Syndromes: Differential Diagnosis -- 14. Collaboration Begins: The Medical History -- 15. Misunderstandings and Hidden Issues -- 16. Collaboration Continues: First Talks About Personal Illness -- 17. The Core of the Collaboration: The Personal Interview -- 18. Engaging the Patient
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-386) and index
Subject Health attitudes.
Medical care.
Medicine and psychology.
Patients -- Psychology.
Medicine -- Philosophy.
Physician and patient.
Psychological models
Truth disclosure
Medicine -- Philosophy.
Patients -- psychology.
Professional-Patient Relations.
Attitude to Health.
Models, Psychological.
Attitude to Health.
Medical care
Models, Psychological.
Patients -- psychology.
Professional -- Patient Relations
Professional-Patient Relations.
Medicine and psychology
LC no. 94027113
ISBN 0804723893 (cloth : alk. paper)
0804731535 (paperback)