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Bioethics, Healthcare and the Soul

Bioethics, Healthcare and the Soul

1st Edition

By Henk ten Have, Renzo Pegoraro
November 15, 2023

This thought-provoking book explores the connections between health, ethics, and soul. It analyzes how and why the soul has been lost from scientific discourses, healthcare practices, and ethical discussions, presenting suggestions for change. Arguing that the dominant scientific worldview has ...

Culture, Spirituality and Religious Literacy in Healthcare Nordic Perspectives

Culture, Spirituality and Religious Literacy in Healthcare: Nordic Perspectives

1st Edition

Edited By Daniel Enstedt, Lisen Dellenborg
October 05, 2023

Elaborating with the concepts of culture and religious literacy, this volume examines theoretical, methodological and empirical aspects of the practice and study of religion and non-religion, culture, spirituality and worldviews within healthcare. In modern multi-cultural and multi-religious ...

Contemporary Physician-Authors Exploring the Insights of Doctors Who Write

Contemporary Physician-Authors: Exploring the Insights of Doctors Who Write

1st Edition

Edited By Nathan Carlin
September 25, 2023

This book examines the phenomenon of physician-authors. Focusing on the books that contemporary doctors write--the stories that they tell--with contributors critically engaging their work. A selection of original chapters from leading scholars in medical and health humanities analyze the literary ...

Bodies and Suffering Emotions and Relations of Care

Bodies and Suffering: Emotions and Relations of Care

1st Edition

By Ana Dragojlovic, Alex Broom
May 31, 2023

This book is a critical response to a range of problems – some theoretical, others empirical – that shape questions surrounding the lived experience of suffering. It explores how moral and ethical questions of personal suffering are experienced, contested, negotiated and institutionalised. Bodies ...

Medical Education, Politics and Social Justice The Contradiction Cure

Medical Education, Politics and Social Justice: The Contradiction Cure

1st Edition

By Alan Bleakley
May 31, 2023

This book critically analyses how politics and power affect the ways that medicine is taught and learned. Challenging society’s historic reluctance to connect the realm of politics to the realm of medicine, Medical Education, Politics and Social Justice: The Contradiction Cure emphasizes the need ...

Medical Humanities, Sociology and the Suffering Self Surviving Health

Medical Humanities, Sociology and the Suffering Self: Surviving Health

1st Edition

By Wendy Lowe
May 31, 2023

Following criticisms of the traditionally polarized view of understanding suffering through either medicine or social justice, Lowe makes a compelling argument for how the medical humanities can help to go beyond the traditional biographical and epistemic breaks to see into the nature and ...

Rethinking Pain in Person-Centred Health Care Around Recovery

Rethinking Pain in Person-Centred Health Care: Around Recovery

1st Edition

By Stephen Buetow
May 31, 2023

This book explores how person-centred health care could be refined to help persons alleviate pain-related distress and construct pain as a potentially positive experience. Rethinking Pain in Person-Centred Health Care is a fascinating contribution to the multidisciplinary literature on ...

Critical Humanities and Ageing Forging Interdisciplinary Dialogues

Critical Humanities and Ageing: Forging Interdisciplinary Dialogues

1st Edition

Edited By Marlene Goldman, Kate de Medeiros, Thomas Cole
November 01, 2022

Providing a critical humanities approach to ageing, this book addresses new directions in age studies: the meaning and workings of "ageism" in the twenty-first century, the vexed relationship between age and disability studies, the meanings and experiences of "queer" aging; the fascinating, yet ...

From Loneliness to Solitude in Person-centred Health Care

From Loneliness to Solitude in Person-centred Health Care

1st Edition

By Stephen Buetow
August 26, 2022

This innovative book provides a new conceptual analysis of loneliness – a condition associated with severe health consequences, including increased morbidity and early death. Arguing that social connection is not the only answer, it explores pathways for transforming loneliness to healthy solitude....

A Whole Person Approach to Wellbeing Building Sense of Safety

A Whole Person Approach to Wellbeing: Building Sense of Safety

1st Edition

By Johanna Lynch
August 01, 2022

This book builds on the person-centred medicine movement to promote a shift in the philosophy of care of distress. It discusses the vital importance of whole person health, healing and growth. Developing a new transdisciplinary concept of sense of safety, this book argues that the whole person ...

Palliative Care Nursing as Mindfulness Embodying a Relational Ethic through Strong Emotion, Uncertainty and Death

Palliative Care Nursing as Mindfulness: Embodying a Relational Ethic through Strong Emotion, Uncertainty and Death

1st Edition

By Lacie White
May 26, 2022

As nurses, we hear about mindfulness all the time, but what does that actually mean in practice? In this book readers are invited into conversation to explore how mindfulness influences palliative care nurses’ approaches to caring for themselves and others through experiences of living-dying. ...

Poetry in the Clinic Towards a Lyrical Medicine

Poetry in the Clinic: Towards a Lyrical Medicine

1st Edition

By Alan Bleakley, Shane Neilson
December 31, 2021

This book explores previously unexamined overlaps between the poetic imagination and the medical mind. It shows how appreciation of poetry can help us to engage with medicine in more intense ways based on ‘de-familiarising’ old habits and bringing poetic forms of ‘close reading’ to the clinic.    ...

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