The Lost Art of Caring: A Challenge to Health Professionals, Families, Communities, and Society

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Leighton E. Cluff, Robert H. Binstock
JHU Press, 2001 M05 7 - 288 pages

In The Lost Art of Caring, Leighton E. Cluff, M.D., and Robert H. Binstock, Ph.D., bring together experts to address the importance of caring, the reasons why it has eroded, and measures that can strengthen caring as provided by health professionals, families, communities, and society.

 

Contents

Vulnerability and Illness
11
Who Needs Caring?
25
Caring and Mental Illness
71
A History of Caring in Medicine
77
Forces Affecting Caring by Physicians
104
Caring and Medical Education
125
Caring in Institutional Settings
137
Toward a Caring Paradigm
155
Caring and CommunityBased Voluntary Organizations
177
Appraising the Success of Caring
201
The Politics of Caring
219
Summary
243
Index
251
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Leighton E. Cluff, M.D., is a professor emeritus at the University of Florida College of Medicine and former president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Robert H. Binstock, Ph.D., is a professor of Aging, Health, and Society at Case Western Reserve University. They are co-editors, with Otto von Mering, of The Future of Long-Term Care, also available from Johns Hopkins.

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