Comprehensive Medicine
Subtitle: Biopsychosocial Medicine: Oriental & Occidental Overview
By: INTRODUCTION BY STACEY B. DAY
Edition: Limited Edition in English of 2000 Imprints
Publisher: International Foundation for Biosocial Development and Human Health; Distributed by C.E.P. Publications (Oviedo, Florida)
Published: 1999
Place of publication: United States
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 205
Copyright date: 1999
Subjects: Holistic medicine.; Medicine, Oriental.; Medicine, Psychosomatic.; BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL MEDICINE; LOGOTHERAPY
Genres: MEDICINE; ORIENTAL AND OCCIDENTAL INTEGRATION OF HEALTH CONCEPTS
Other titles: BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL MEDICINE:    ORIENTAL &  OCCIDENTAL OVERVIEW
First sentence: FROM INTRODUCTION: I Wa Jinjutsu Nari - Medicine is the Practice of Humanity.Professor Nagata has chosen a fascinating title for his presentation. Much ink has been spread upon the pages of medical journals over the past forty years relating to the issue of reform in health care and in medical teaching. Not least for that reason I have been pleased to encourage Dr Nagata's efforts to advance the validity and scope of COMPREHENSIVE MEDICINE, for the thread of my own work and teaching has led me to believe quite in harmony with the ideas set forth in this book. As a medical student I was influenced by the words of Wilfred Trotter, uttered sixty seven years ago, in his counsel that "the aptitude of the good doctor is that of handling the sick man's mind", and like several other teachings of that Prince of Surgeons, I came to cherish the insights that he brought to bear not only as a distinguished teacher, but as a fine human being.
Description: Comprehensive Medicine, advocated for many years by Dr Stacey B. Day, should not be merely a catch-all phrase. It should be a system put to practical and effective use by developing all available global knowledge and resources. By advancing the concept of COMPREHENSIVE MEDICINE improved treatment and many medical problems can be ameliorated or solved. This approach views each patient as an "individual person suffering from illness in a given place at a given time". By "individual person" is meant a whole person or a biopsychosocial -existential entity. It should be recognized that there are limitations to current Western (Occidental) Medical Practice, and it is argued that Traditional Medicine (as in Africa, Asia, the Orient) and Psychosomatic Medical approaches, integrating all disciplines of knowledge must be the basis of our healing methodologies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-205). Includes Preface, Acknowledgements and Introduction. Includes a photograph illustration of Professor Yujiro Ikemi and Professor Stacey Day, on the occasion of a Special Lecture Address to the Japanese Association of Psychosomatic Medicine by Professor Day in Fukuoka, June 1990. Also a full page photograph illustration of the late Professor Viktor Frankl of Vienna, Founder of Logotherapy.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1: Three Stages of Disease and Pitfalls of Current Occidental (Western) Medicine; title: Chapter 2: Treatment of Pre-Conditions (Unrecognised Conditions) Approach to Functional Diseases; title: Chapter 3: Cathartic Approach and Supplementary Approach; title: Chapter 4: The Doctor's Attitude; title: Chapter 5: Care of Fatal Disease Entities; title: Chapter 6: Why is New Medicine Needed? Creation of a New Paradigm; title: Chapter 7: Outline of "COMPREHENSIVE MEDICINE" including Development of the Biopsychosocial Approach; title: Chapter 8: What is Quality of Life (QOL) ?; title: Chapter 9: WISDOM OF THE BODY - DEFENSE THROUGH "KETSU"; title: Chapter 10: LOGOTHERAPY at the Core of Comprehensive Medicine; title: References