A Systems Analysis of Medicine (SAM) : Healing Medicine.
This book is a must read for anyone interested in transforming the impersonal character of the medical experience into a personalized, relational, spiritual, and holistic dialogue about human health. It promotes a holistic vision of the doctor-patient relationship, a medicine that ought to be based...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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La Vergne :
Ibidem Press,
2019.
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| Series: | Studies in medical philosophy.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction: A Systems Analysis of Medicine (SAM); Chapter One: The STS Toolbox; Overview; Resource. 2; Technical Programs; Social Community Programs; Ethics: Doing the Right Thing; The STS Range; The STS Conversation; Thematic Contrast Issues; Bioethics; Responsible Social Action; Characteristics of Successful Social Action; Results; Conclusion; Chapter Two: Persons Exist in Relationships; Overview; A phenomenological analysis of religious faith; What is a person?; Conclusion; In Summary; Chapter Three: Dialogic Spirituality; Overview; Introduction
- A system-based approach to medicineWhat is spirituality?; Discussion Note; The religious tendency towards good, God, and eternal life manifests itself in the spiritual nature of the personmaking process.; Spirituality and personalized medicine; Conclusion; Glossary of Terms; Questions to assess broken spiritual associations on the arm of the carbon-self; Questions to assess broken spiritual associations on the arm of the social-self.; Questions to assess broken spiritual associations on the arm of the internal-self; Summary: How to Conduct a Spiritual Assessment
- Chapter Four: Why Ethics MattersOverview; Introduction; Ethics regulates relationships; Dialogical Ethical Theories; The Oath of Hippocrates; Abortion; AMA PRINCIPLES OF MEDICAL ETHICS; Social Action; Palliative Care; Case Studies in Healthcare; Chapter Five: The Absolute Truth Value of Human Death; Overview; Conclusion; Conclusion; Works Cited; Index
