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• Title:The nature of suffering and the goals of medicine / Eric J. Cassell.
  
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• Author/Creator:Cassell, Eric J., 1928-2021.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
  

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  • Location:BMB LIBRARY (VGH) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: W61 .C38 2004
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: W61 .C38 2004
    
  • Number of Items:2
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Medicine--Philosophy.
  Suffering.
  Physician and patient.
  Palliative treatment.
  
• Medical Subjects: Philosophy, Medical.
  Chronic Disease--therapy.
  Pain--therapy.
  Palliative Care--methods.
  Physician-Patient Relations.
  
• Edition:2nd ed.
  
• Description:xx, 313 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-306) and index.
  
• ISBN:0195156161 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Ideas in conflict: the rise and fall of new views of disease
  The changing concept of the ideal physician
  The nature of suffering
  Suffering in chronic illness
  The mysterious relationship between doctor and patient
  How to understand diseases
  The pursuit of disease or the care of the sick?
  Treating the disease, the body, or the patient
  The doctor and the patient
  Who is this person?
  The measure of the person
  The clinician's experience: power versus magic in medicine
  Mind and body
  The illness called dying
  Pain and suffering
  Epilogue: the care of the suffering patient.