The power of hope
Subtitle: a doctor's perspective
By: Howard Spiro.
Contributors: Yale University. Program for Humanities in Medicine.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New Haven, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Medicine and psychology; Hope; Placebo (Medicine); Sick -- Psychology; Mental healing; Mind and body
Description: "In this book an eminent physician explores how patients and caring doctors can help lessen suffering when illness occurs. Dr. Howard Spiro urges that physicians focus on their patients' feelings of pain and anxiety as well as on physical symptoms. He also suggests that patients and their doctors be receptive to the emotional relief that may be obtained from nature and from hope." "Drawing on his previous highly praised work on the doctor-patient relationship and the problem of pain, Dr. Spiro tells how people can be helped by a combination of alternative medicine and mainstream medicine - a treatment of mind, body, and spirit that energizes patients, strengthens their expectations, and starts them on the road to feeling better. In various forms of alternative medicine, from meditation to massage, from faith healing to folk medicine, from herbology to homeopathy, practitioners heed patients' complaints and help them to help themselves."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-278) and index.
"Prepared under the auspices of The Program for Humanities in Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine."
"Portions of this book previously appeared in Doctors, patients, and placebos (Yale University Press, 1986)"--T.p. verso.