Author: Cassell, Eric J.
Title: The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine
Description: New York / Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1991. orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xvii, 254 pp. Minor rubbing. Small spot to binding. Slight page-edge soil. VG. ¶ Contents: Ideas in Conflict: The Rise & Fall of New Views of Disease; The Changing Concept of the Ideal Physician; The Nature of Suffering; Suffering in Chronic llness; The Mysterious Relationship between Doctor and Patient; How to Understand Diseases; The Pursuit of Disease or the Care of the Sick?; Treating the Disease, the Body, or the Patient; The Doctor & the Patient; Who Is This Person? The Measure of the Person; The Clinician's Experience: Power Versus Magic in Medicine; Epilogue: The Care of the Suffering Patient.

Keywords: Philosophy of Medicine, Suffering, Chronic Disease, Physician-Patient, Relations, Medical, Ethics, ,