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“eric j cassell”

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  • The Nature of Clinical Medicine

    The Return of the Clinician

    by Eric J. Cassell ...
    Clinical medicine, as a thinking discipline, is concerned not only with what clinicians do, but why. When physicians act in medicine they have some purpose or goal in mind. What they actually do and how they go about it is in the service of their purposes and their goals. Such goals cover a wide range of topics centering on patients, the doctor-patient relationship, the acts of doctoring patients, ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine

    by Eric J. Cassell ...
    This is a revised and expanded edtion of a classic in palliative medicine, originally published in 1991. With three added chapters and a new preface summarizing our progress in the area of pain management, this is a must-hve for those in palliative medicine and hospice care. The obligation of physicians to relieve human suffering stretches back into antiquity. But what exactly, is suffering? One ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • The Nature of Clinical Medicine

    The Return of the Clinician

    by Eric J. Cassell ...
    Clinical medicine, as a thinking discipline, is concerned not only with what clinicians do, but why. When physicians act in medicine they have some purpose or goal in mind. What they actually do and how they go about it is in the service of their purposes and their goals. Such goals cover a wide range of topics centering on patients, the doctor-patient relationship, the acts of doctoring patients, ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Doctoring

    The Nature of Primary Care Medicine

    by Eric J. Cassell, M.D. ...
    American medicine attracts some of the brightest and most motivated people the country has to offer, and it boasts the most advanced medical technology in the world, a wondrous parade of machines and techniques such as PET scans, MRI, angioplasty, endoscopy, bypasses, organ transplants, and much more besides. And yet, writes Dr. Eric Cassell, what started out early in the century as the exciting ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Doctoring

    The Nature of Primary Care Medicine

    by Eric J. Cassell, M.D. ...
    American medicine attracts some of the brightest and most motivated people the country has to offer, and it boasts the most advanced medical technology in the world, a wondrous parade of machines and techniques such as PET scans, MRI, angioplasty, endoscopy, bypasses, organ transplants, and much more besides. And yet, writes Dr. Eric Cassell, what started out early in the century as the exciting ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Physicianship and the Rebirth of Medical Education

    by J. Donald Boudreau, Eric Cassell, Abraham Fuks ...
    The renewal of medical curricula generally arises from emerging pedagogies (e.g. problem-based learning), new technologies (e.g. high fidelity simulation), or prevailing sociocultural forces (e.g. complexity of health care delivery and team-based care). Approximately 15 years ago, a team of physicians and administrators sought to take this further: by considering the very nature of medical ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

  • Animal Algorithms

    by Eric Cassell ...
    How do some birds, turtles, and insects possess navigational abilities that rival the best manmade navigational technologies? Who or what taught the honey bee its dance, or its hive mates how to read the complex message of the dance? How do blind mound-building termites master passive heating and cooling strategies that dazzle skilled human architects? In The Origin of Species Charles Darwin ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Clearing the Path

    On Death, Loss, and Grief

    by Lynne Dale Halamish, Eric Cassell ...
    Clearing the Path is a collection of clinical stories that illustrate practical, applicable communication tools for professionals in work with end-of-life patients and families. These vignettes from practice demonstrate how impending death, death itself, and the loss of a relationship affect the lives and grief of both patients and survivors. Written 13 years after its companion volume The Weeping ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Language Gap

    Normalizing Deficit Ideologies

    by David Cassels Johnson, Eric J. Johnson ...
    The Language Gap provides an accessible review of the language gap research, illuminating what we know and what we do not know about the language development of youth from working and lower socioeconomic classes. Written to offer a balanced look at existing literature, this text analyzes how language gap research is portrayed in the media and how debatable research findings have been portrayed as ... Read more

    $57.99 USD