Prognosis

by Gordon, Jill, (General practitioner) Macnaughton, Jane Rudebeck, Carl Edvard

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This fourth volume in the Companion to Medical Humanities series contemplates the challenge of the prognosis, of looking ahead, wondering what will happen, and attempting to make sense of life and death. Beautifully written, it encourages a positive view of life's unpredictability in all its richness, and considers, through personal and professional perspectives, the role of the medical profession in guiding patient experience. It offers inspirational reading for all academics and professionals…

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Title Statements

Full title :Prognosis / edited by Jill Gordon, Jane Macnaughton, and Carl Edvard Rudebeck.

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Publication Date:2014

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Radcliffe Publishing
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xiv, 132 pages.).

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781910227336 (electronic bk), 1910227331 (electronic bk)
oclc:on1100417468
LC Classification:RC80
Dewey Decimal:616.075

Machine generated contents note: 1. Narratives / Anne MacLeod -- 2.A piece of my skin: a physician facing his future / Raimo Puustinen -- 3. Prognosis as process / Rolf Ahlzen -- 4. Prognosis, time and commitment / Carl Edvard Rudebeck -- 5. Acute and chronic / John Saunders -- 6. Becoming / Jane Macnaughton -- 7. Prognosis or prophecy? / Jill Gordon -- 8. First do no harm / Pekka Louhiala -- 9. Technology, ageing and death / Iona Heath -- 10. Open futures, human finitude / Martyn Evans.

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Communication Communication en médecine Communication in medicine Physician and patient Physician-Patient Relations Prognosis Prognosis -- Psychological aspects Prognosis -- Social aspects Pronostics (Pathologie) Pronostics (Pathologie) -- Aspect psych… Pronostics (Pathologie) -- Aspect social Relations médecin-patient