Human Effect in Medicine - Theory, Research and Practice

List of contents

Introduction. Part One: The history of medical practice: a review. Challenging the current therapeutic perspective. Challenging the conventional history of clinical medicine. Uniqueness in clinical practice: reflections on suffering. Doctors and patients: the therapeutic relationship. Part Two: Placebo theory and research: the physical healer. Using the placebo effect. Why do placebos work? How does the palcebo effect work? How can the mind effect the body? Evidence from psychoneuroimmunology. How the physician healer works: three theories. Part Three: Theory into practice: how do we improve of effectiveness as physician healers? Theory into practice I. Theory into practice II. Theory into practice III. Summary and conclusions.

About the author

Michael Dixon, Keiran Sweeney

Summary

How is modern medicine failing? Why is a more human approach required? This book challenges the dogma of modern technological medicine that ignores both the therapeutic effect of the doctors and the self-healing powers of the patient

Product details

• Authors: Dixon, Michael Dixon, Michael Sweeney Dixon, Sir Denis Pereira Gray, Keiran Sweeney, Kieran Sweeney
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138444256
• ISBN: 978-1-138-44425-6
• No. of pages: 170
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Test Preparation & Review, Medical study & revision guides & reference material, Medical study and revision guides and reference material