The Human Effect in Medicine: Theory, Research and Practice

by Michael Dixon and Keiran Sweeney

How is modern medicine failing? Why is a more human approach required? This book challenges the dogma of modern technological medicine that ignores both the therapeutic effect of the doctors and the self-healing powers of the patient. It reviews the vast weight of evidence on the effectiveness of this 'human effect', and uses the evidence to describe how to use the human effect in everyday practice. This book is about a vision. A vision that practitioners...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1857753690
• ISBN13: 9781857753691
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 170 Pages