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Health Care Communication Using Personality Type
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 46.95This groundbreaking text draws upon examples from everyday health care situations to demonstrate that the behaviour differences we all experience in others actually fit within a readily understandable framework (the MBI). more...
Healing Bond
Routledge 1994; US$ 51.95This book combines the expertise of practitioners and researchers to address the wide range of debates currently taking place in relation to the politics of the practitioner-client relationship. more...
Narrative Research in Health and Illness
Wiley 2008; US$ 137.95This comprehensive book celebrates the coming of age of narrative in health care. It uses narrative to go beyond the patient's story and address social, cultural, ethical, psychological, organizational and linguistic issues. This book has been written to help health professionals and social scientists to use narrative more effectively in their everyday... more...
Communicating Health and Illness
SAGE Publications 2001; US$ 67.00Gwyn demonstrates the centrality of discourse analysis to an understanding of health and communication. Focussing on language and communication issues he demonstrates that it is possible to observe and analyze patterns in the ways in which health and illness are represented and articulated by both health professionals and lay people. more...
Spiritual Caregiving
Templeton Press 2008; US$ 9.99With today's cumbersome insurance procedures, government regulations, endless paperwork, and concerns about malpractice rates, many health care professionals are asking: "Why am I doing this? Am I making a difference to my patients? Is there a better way—and if so, what is it?" In this book, Carson and Koenig examine the state of... more...
Surviving Fears in Health and Social Care
Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2004; US$ 36.95Drawing on powerful first-hand accounts, this book explores the fears experienced when working in child protection, mental health, and with marginalized groups of people, and suggests how these fears can be understood and managed. The author provides helpful suggestions for good practice and training. more...
When Professionals Weep
CRC Press 2006; US$ 29.95End-of-life care (EOL) is a specialized area of work that crosses a number of academic and professional disciplines, including social work, counselling, hospice, physical medicine, geriatrics, nursing, psychology, and clerical work. Professionals who work in EOL have often had deeply moving personal experiences with trauma, death, and loss in their... more...
Physical Diagnosis
McGraw-Hill 2006; US$ 29.95500 USMLE-style questions and answers referenced to core textbooks and journal articles.; Complete explanations discuss right and wrong answer options.; All questions are reviewed by students who have recently passed the exams more...
Hippocrates' Shadow
Scribner 2008; US$ 17.99Everyone knows of the Hippocratic Oath, the famous invocation sworn by all neophyte physicians. But most don't realize that the father of modern medicine was an avid listener and a constant bedside presence. Hippocrates believed in the doctor-patient connection and gained worldwide renown for championing science over mysticism while respecting and... more...
Coaching Standardized Patients
Springer Publishing Company 2006; US$ 85.00In today's medical education curriculum, it is necessary for students to learn the proper technique for taking medical histories, performing physical exams, and finding the appropriate way to educate and inform patients. The best way for a student to learn these skills is through hands-on training with a Standardized Patient (SP)--an actor who... more...









