Healers : extraordinary clinicians at work / David Schenck and Larry R. Churchill.

In this groundbreaking volume, David Schenck and Larry Churchill present the results of fifty interviews with practitioners identified by their peers as "healers," exploring in depth the things that the best clinicians do. They focus on specific actions that exceptional healers perform to...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Schenck, David
Other Authors: Churchill, Larry R., 1945-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Healing in health care: eight things the best clinicians do
  • Medical rituals: organizing the healing elements
  • How healing happens: reports from the field
  • Healing traditions: the role of religion and spirituality
  • Patient perspectives: healing from the other side of the bed rail
  • Biology of healing: neuroscience and the education of healers (with Eve Henry, M.D.)
  • Healing thyself: clinicians talk about their own healing practices
  • Ethics and medicine: healing the wounds of fate.