Here is a thoroughly updated edition of a classic in palliative medicine. Two new chapters have been added to
the 1991 edition, along with a new preface summarizing where progress has been made and where it has not in the
area of pain management. This book addresses the timely issue of doctor-patient relationships arguing that the
patient, not the disease, should be the central focus of medicine. Included are a number of compelling patient
narratives.
Table of Contents
1. Ideas in Conflict: The Rise and Fall of New Views of Disease
2. The Changing Concept of the Ideal Physician
3. The Nature of Suffering
4. Suffering in Chronic Illness
5. The Mysterious Relationship Between Doctor and Patient
6. How to Understand Diseases
7. The Pursuit of Disease or the Care of the Sick?
8. Treating the Disease, the Body, or the Patient
9. The Doctor and the Patient
10. Who is This Person?
11. The Measure of the Person
12. The Clinician's Experience: Power Versus Magic in Medicine
13. Mind and Body
14. The Illness Called Dying
15. Pain and Suffering
The Care of the Suffering Patient
