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The Lost Art of Caring

A Challenge to Health Professionals, Families, Communities, and Society
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In The Lost Art of Caring, Leighton E. Cluff, M.D., and Robert H. Binstock, Ph.D., bring together experts to address the importance of caring, the reasons why it has eroded, and measures that can strengthen caring as provided by health professionals, families, communities, and society.


Contents:

I Caring and the Populations in Need of It

Our Need for Caring: Vulnerability and Illness

Who Needs Caring?

Caring and Mental Illness



II The Provision of Caring

A History of Caring in Medicine

Forces Affecting Caring by Physicians

Caring and Medical Education

Caring in Institutional Settings

Home and Community-Based Care: Toward a Caring Paradigm

Caring and Community-Based Voluntary Organizations



III Assessments of Caring

Appraising the Success of Caring

The Politics of Caring

""A remarkable broad and well-integrated package of philosophy and fact, a valuable and compact resource for health care professionals, as well as legislators and social scientists.""

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