Caring for Patients: A Critique of the Medical Model

by Allen Barbour

"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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804723893
• ISBN13: 9780804723893
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"