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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451241603321

Titolo

The Healing bond : the patient-practitioner relationship and therapeutic responsibility / / edited by Susan Budd and Ursula Sharma

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1994

ISBN

1-134-87630-0

1-280-32161-X

0-203-42113-2

9786610321612

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BuddSusan <1941->

SharmaUrsula <1941->

Disciplina

610.69/6

Soggetti

Medical personnel and patient

Patients

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction; The construction of the physician: a cultural approach to medical fashions; Autonomy, responsibility and midwifery; Quacks: an unconscionable time dying; The equation of responsibility: complementary practitioners and their patients; Collective therapeutic responsibility: lessons from the GMC; Therapeutic responsibility and the law; Transference revisited; Sharing responsibility for patient care: doctors and complementary practitioners

'Only nature heals': a discussion of therapeutic responsibility from a naturopathic point of viewDoctor and patient in family planning and psychosexual therapy; Name index; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

This book combines the expertise of practitioners and researchers to address the wide range of debates currently taking place in relation to the politics of the practitioner-client relationship.