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The Lost Art of Caring

A Challenge to Health Professionals, Families, Communities, and Society

edited by Leighton E. Cluff, M.D., and Robert H. Binstock, Ph.D.
with a foreword by Rosalynn Carter

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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.

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The text is chock full of the thoughts of some of America's leading experts on the caring side of health care. This book should be read by any health care professional with an interest in this dimension of health care and is a must read for the medical community. A marvelous text.

On the whole, this volume deepens our understanding and appreciation of the importance of caring for all who are in need of personal attention and assistance when ill and disabled. The contributors seem to have given much thought to their chapters, weaving together personal stories, clinical experiences, research findings, and proposals for change.

A remarkable broad and well-integrated package of philosophy and fact, a valuable and compact resource for health care professionals, as well as legislators and social scientists.

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9
Pages
288
ISBN
9780801874437
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6 b&w illus.
Table of Contents

Part I. Caring and the Populations in Need of It
Chapter 1. Our Need for Caring: Vulnerability and Illness
Chapter 2. Who Needs Caring?
Chapter 3. Caring and Mental Illness
Part II. The Provision of

Part I. Caring and the Populations in Need of It
Chapter 1. Our Need for Caring: Vulnerability and Illness
Chapter 2. Who Needs Caring?
Chapter 3. Caring and Mental Illness
Part II. The Provision of Caring
Chapter 4. A History of Caring in Medicine
Chapter 5. Forces Affecting Caring by Physicians
Chapter 6. Caring and Medical Education
Chapter 7. Caring in Institutional Settings
Chapter 8.Home and Community-Based Care: Toward a Caring Paradigm
Chapter 9. Caring and Community-Based Voluntary Organizations
Part III. Assessments of Caring
Chapter 10. Appraising the Success of Caring
Chapter 11. The Politics of Caring

Author Bios
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Leighton E. Cluff, M.D.

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
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Robert H. Binstock, Ph.D.

Robert H. Binstock (1935–2011) was, at the time of his death, a professor of aging, health, and society at Case Western Reserve University, where he taught in the public health program and also in the departments of medicine, epidemiology and biostatistics, bioethics, and in the School of Nursing and the College of Arts and Sciences.