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Clarke, Beverley M.

On suffering pathways to healing & health / [electronic resource] : Beverley M. Clarke. - Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press, c2011. - 1 online resource (xii, 302 p. :) ill. ; - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-291) and index.

Suffering in medicine -- Suffering is not pain -- The power of religious and spiritual beliefs -- Suffering and culture -- Crises of suffering across the life span -- The language of suffering -- Medical-legal disclosure of suffering -- Power differentials and suffering -- How to assess suffering -- Standards of care -- Key components of suffering in chronic illness -- The resolution of suffering -- The roles of health care professionals -- Habilitation and rehabilitation -- The wounded spirit -- Surviving and thriving.

ISBN: 9781611680102 1611680107

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Professional-Patient Relations.
Pain.
Empathy.
Chronic Disease.
Stress, Psychological--therapy.
Stress, Psychological--etiology.
Pain--Treatment.
Pain--Physiological aspects.
Pain--Psychological aspects.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: RB127 / .C54 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 616/.0472