Whole Person Care

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Edition: 2011
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 1441994394
Category: Medical

Whole Person Care: A New Paradigm for the 21st Century

A ground-breaking new volume and the first of its kind to concisely outline and explicate the emerging field of whole person care process, Whole Person Care: A New Paradigm for the 21st Century organizes the disparate strains of literature on the topic. Download Whole Person Care medical books for free.
It does so by clarifying the concept of 'whole person' and also by outlining the challenges and opportunities that death anxiety poses to the practice of whole person care. Whole person care seeks to study, understand and promote the role of health care in relieving suffering and promoting healing in acute and chronic illness as a complement to the disease focus of biomedicine. The focus is on the whole person -- physical, emotional, social, and spiritual. Using concise, easy-to-read language, Get Whole Person Care our bestseller medical books.

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