Empathy and the practice of medicine: beyond pills and the scalpel. / edited by Howard M. Spiro et al. - New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. - xi, 208 p

Includes index

Seeking to restore empathy to medical practice, this book aims to demonstrate how important it is for doctors to listen to their patients, to experience and to understand what their patients are feeling. The book is a collection of essays by physicians, philosophers and a nurse.

0300059183


Physician and patient
Medical personnel and patient

R727.3.R48