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Medicine of the person — faith, science and values in health care provision
Author(s)	John Cox, Alastair V Campbell, Bill K W M Fulford
Publisher	Jessica Kingsley, London, 2007
Pages	239 pp
Source	Jessica Kingsley (Publishers) Ltd., 116 Pentonville Road, London N1 9JB. http://www.jkp.com
Keywords	Medical care ; Science ; Spiritual characteristics [elderly].
Annotation	Simply defined, 'medicine of the person' is an overall attitude to health care provision. This book has its origins in a conference held at Keele University in 1998 on "Whole Person Medicine - the contribution of Paul Tournier". Contributors from different faiths argue for medical practice that takes account of personal relationships, spirituality, ethics and theology, in keeping with the ideas on patient care and national health services of Paul Tournier, a Swiss general practitioner (GP), and explored in Part 1. Christian, Jewish, Islamic, and Hindu and Ayurvedic approaches are covered in Part 2, Faith traditions and medicine of the person. Part 3, Medicine of the person in contemporary practice, covers aspects such as mental health, public health, home health care and neuroscience. The foreword is by Julia Neuberger; for her, an indirect message of the book is that health services put the 'personal' back into health care. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-070116001 B
Classmark	LK: Y: EX
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