Caring for Patients: A Critique of the Medical Model

by Allen Barbour

Book Overview

"See your patient as a person, not a disease." This is the essential message of an experienced and compassionate physician who questions the prevailing medical model of patient care - that every illness has a physical cause that can be identified and treated medically - and who argues for the necessity of taking the psychological and social circumstances of the patient into account in the process of diagnosis and treatment.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804731535
• ISBN13: 9780804731539
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"