Acknowledgments
Tom A. Hutchinson
Preface
Tom A. Hutchinson
Foreword
Balfour M. Mount
1. Whole person care
Tom A. Hutchinson
2. Suffering, whole person care, and the goals of medicine
Eric J. Cassell
3. The healing journey
Tom A. Hutchinson, Balfour M. Mount, Michael Kearney
4. The challenge of medical dichotomies and the congruent physician / patient relationship in medicine
Tom A. Hutchinson, James R. Brawer
5. Separation-attachment theory in illness and the role of the healthcare practitioner
Gregory Fricchione
6. Empathy, compassion and the goals of medicine
Stephen Liben
7. Mindfulness and whole person care
Patricia L. Dobkin
8. Healing, wounding, and the language of medicine
Abraham Fuks
9. Death anxiety: the challenge and the promise of whole person care
Sheldon Solomon, Krista Lawlor
10. Whole person self-care: self-care from the inside out
Michael Kearney, Radhule Weininger
11. Prevention and whole person care
Tom A. Hutchinson
12. Whole person care and complementary and alternative therapies
Mary Grossman
13. Spiritual dimensions of whole person care
Abdu'l-Missagh Ghadirian
14. Whole person care and the revolution in genetics
David S. Rosenblatt, Jennifer Fitzpatrick
15. Whole person care on a busy medical ward
Gordon L. Crelinsten
16. Teaching whole person care in medical school
Helen Mc Namara, J. Donald Boudreau
17. Whole person care, professionalism, and the medical mandate
Richard L. Cruess, Sylvia R. Cruess
18. Whole person care: Conclusions
Tom A. Hutchinson
Appendix; The nature of persons and clinical medicine
Eric J. Cassell