The Whole Person Approach to Health Care
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This handbook is a guide to a wide variety of applications of a whole person approach to medical practice and health care.
It is a work in a state of on-going development. Each chapter has been contributed by someone involved in the delivery of medicine or health care, and regular re-writes enable us to develop and refine the advice given here.
Each chapter may also be downloaded as an Adobe .pdf file for easier reading. There are no charges for downloading, however you may like to make a small contribution to our charity through our donations page.
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Chapter |
Chapter Title and author |
| Outline of the book (MS) | |
| Introductory chapter (MS) | |
| Success and shortcomings of modern medicine (MH) | |
| Developing new models of health care (MH) | |
| Body, Soul and Spirit - an anthropology (MS) | |
| Spirit and spirituality (MS) | |
| Belief Systems (MS) | |
| Doctor's belief systems (NB) | |
| Medicine from the patient's perspective (JA) | |
| The theory of a whole person approach in medicine (MS) | |
| Principles of whole person health care (MS) | |
| Putting theory into practice (MS) | |
| The Physical Assessment (MS) | |
| The psychosocial assessment (NR and MS) | |
| The spiritual assessment (MS) | |
| Tools for patients to change (JA) | |
| Spirituality in health from the Muslim viewpoint (TBC) | |
| Spirituality in health from the Jewish viewpoint (TBC) | |
| Spirituality in health from the Charismatic Christian viewpoint (TBC) | |
| Spirituality in health from the secular (non-religious viewpoint) (TBC) | |
| How can a doctor support all these religious viewpoints? (TBC) | |
| Some models of WP health care (MS) | |
| The Burrswood Model (MH) | |
| The Burrswood nurse (SO) | |
| Karis experience with chaplains in GP (RB) | |
| Nursing patients with ME (DR) | |
| Care of the elderly | |
| Palliative care and hospices (MH) | |
| The 7 stage model of spirituality (DC) | |
| Research and evaluation | |
| Summary of benefits and dangers | |
| Bibliography |
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Authors
MS |
Mike Sheldon |
MH |
Michael Harper |
NB |
Naomi Beer |
JA |
James Ashdown |
NR |
Nick Read |
SO |
Suzanne Owen |
RB |
Ross Bryson |
DC |
David Chaput |
DR |
Debbie Roberts |
TBC |
To be confirmed |
A fuller description of the contributors can be found on the
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