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    <title>Empathy and the practice of medicine: beyond pills and the scalpel</title>
    <subTitle>edited by Howard M. Spiro et al</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Spiro, Howard, M.</namePart>
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    <publisher>Yale University Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1993</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xi, 208 p</extent>
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  <abstract>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.</abstract>
  <note>Includes index</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Physician and patient</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Medical personnel and patient</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">R727.3.R48</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">0300059183</identifier>
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