Clarke, Beverley M.

On suffering pathways to healing & health / Beverley M. Clarke. - Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press, (c)2011. - 1 online resource (xii, 302 pages) : illustrations.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Suffering in medicine -- Suffering is not pain -- The power of religious and spiritual beliefs -- Suffering and culture -- Crises of suffering across the life span -- The language of suffering -- Medical-legal disclosure of suffering -- Power differentials and suffering -- How to assess suffering -- Standards of care -- Key components of suffering in chronic illness -- The resolution of suffering -- The roles of health care professionals -- Habilitation and rehabilitation -- The wounded spirit -- Surviving and thriving.

The first book to address issues of suffering as separate from pain that require psychologically and culturally sensitive interventions



9781611680102


Pain--Psychological aspects.
Pain--Physiological aspects.
Pain--Treatment.


Electronic Books.

RB127 / .O578 2011