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Empathy and the Practice of Medicine: Beyond Pills and the Scalpel
Howard Spiro
Empathy and the Practice of Medicine: Beyond Pills and the Scalpel
Howard Spiro
Seeking to restore empathy to medical practice, this book aims to demonstrate how important it is for doctors to listen to their patients, to experience and to understand what their patients are feeling. The book is a collection of essays by physicians, philosophers and a nurse.
222 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | February 21, 1996 |
ISBN13 | 9780300066708 |
Publishers | Yale University Press |
Pages | 222 |
Dimensions | 228 × 151 × 20 mm · 362 g |
Language | English |
Editor | Curnen, Mary G. McCrea |
Editor | Peschel, Enid |
Editor | Spiro, Howard |
Editor | St James, Deborah |