Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Sickness
Chapter 2 The Person, Sick or Well
Chapter 3 Functioning
Chapter 4 What is Healing?
Chapter 5 Listening: The Foundation of the Healing Relationship of Patient and Clinician
Chapter 6 The Evaluation of the Patient
Chapter 7 Knowing the Patient
Chapter 8 The Patient's Reaction to Illness
Chapter 9 The State of Illness
Chapter 10 Healing the Sick Patient
Chapter 11 Healing the Suffering Patient
Chapter 12 Respect for Persons and Autonomy
Chapter 13 Purposes, Goals, and Well-Being

About the Author

Eric J. Cassell is an attending physician at New York Presbyterian Hospital, as well as Emeritus Professor of Public Health at Weill Cornell Medical College and Adjunct Professor of Medicine at McGill University. He retired from the active practice of internal medicine in 1998, after thirty-seven years. Cassell is the author of The Healer's Art, The Place of the Humanities in Medicine, Changing Values in Medicine, two volumes on
doctor-patient communication entitled Talking with Patients, Doctoring: The Nature of Primary Care Medicine, and The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine, now in its second edition. Cassell is also Fellow of the Hastings Center,
Member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and Master of the American College of Physicians.

Reviews

"...Eric Cassell has been one of medicine's foremost thinkers about suffering. The Nature of Healing is full of insightfully presented and sometimes moving case histories that help Cassell make a case that practitioners need to hear patients' stories so they can understand them enough to help them move toward healing." -- Christian Century
"Cassell is a great listener and a natural storyteller. I hope that he will write a third volume in which he develops those stories more fully." -- John D. Lantos, The Hastings Center
"The Nature of Healing: The Modern Practice of Medicine offers effective and strategic ways to practice patient-centered medicine. [It] offers readers specific ways to reconsider the negative effects of reductionism in medicine, which can manifest as a distancing between clinician and patient as a patient disconnects from the world in descent into illness." -- Adrianne Vincent, Journal of Palliative Medicine
"It will make you think and reflect" -- IAHPC News