Compassion and healing in medicine and society
Subtitle: on the nature and use of attachment solutions to separation challenges
By: Gregory L. Fricchione
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 534
ISBN-13: 9781421402208
Subjects: Empathy; Attachment behavior; Biological Evolution; Separation anxiety; Social Medicine; Mental Healing; Object relations (Psychoanalysis); Object Attachment; Separation Anxiety
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The medical mission and evolution; title: Two realms of knowledge-or one?; title: Knowledge, meaning, and healing; title: Evolution of the protocell; title: Cellular evolution; title: Separation, attachment, and animal evolution; title: Separation, attachment, and evolution of the brain; title: Structuring the brain to know and act; title: Memory and motivation; title: Meaning, healing, and the brain; title: Separation, attachment, and human development; title: Separation, attachment, and the life cycle; title: The social neuroscience of separation and attachment; title: Consciousness, language, and their origins; title: Evolutionary consciousness; title: Implications for society, culture, and ethics; title: An evolutionary true cause?; title: The separation challenge-attachment solution hypothesis; title: A testable hypothesis; title: Analogies and analysis; title: Implications for the mission of modern medicine; title: Implications for medicine at the end of life; title: Postscript : a commentary on human evolution.