The lost art of healing /

Never Before has medicine had the capacity to do so much good, yet never have people been so disenchanted with their doctors. The problem is that doctors have lost the art of healing, which involves much more than diagnostic skills and the ability to mobilize technology. At its core is the doctor-pa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lown, B. (Bernard)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1996.
Subjects:	Holistic medicine. Physician and patient. Medicine and psychology. Healing. Physician-Patient Relations. Holistic Health.
Online Access:	Publisher description

Table of Contents:

1. The Science of History-Taking and the Art of Listening
2. Listening through Touching
3. Mind and Heart
4. Munchausen's Syndrome
5. Words That Maim
6. Words That Heal
7. Hearts of Darkness, Words of Light
8. The Power of Certainty
9. Extraordinary Healing Techniques
10. Malpractice Corrupts Healing
11. Digitalis: The Price of Invention
12. A New Medical Tradition
13. The Shock That Cures: DC and Cardioversion
14. The Coronary Care Unit
15. The Ventricular Extrasystole: Heartthrob or Harbinger?
16. Caring for the Elderly: Problems and Challenges
17. Death and Dying
18. A Modern Hasidic Tale
19. Getting Doctors to Listen.