Product Description: The phrase 'medical humanities' has a currency that is wider than any agreement as to what it means, though those engaged in the field usually know what they are attempting. This volume examines the idea of 'symptom' as a route to understanding the structure of clinical practice...read more

Product Description: In this extraordinary book, Iona Heath draws on her experience as a general practitioner to select and comment on a collection of passages concerning death and dying, and to consider the essential nature of general practice. In Ways of Dying Heath illuminates the process for professionals and lay readers, and stimulates consideration of approaches to improved care at end of life...read more

Product Description: The impressive progress of medical science over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has tended to overshadow the art of caring for the patient and their families. This book aims to restore the balance by examining practical ways in which the arts can help health professionals to understand the experience of suffering and illness...read more

Research has demonstrated the high prevalence, physical and psychological consequences associated with intimate partner abuse that bring survivors into contact with the health system. Based on the research, this book reveals the complex issues of identification and intervention with survivors of intimate partner abuse within the health system.

Product Description: Increasing concern about clinical negligence demands the provision of more detailed patient information about the complications and risks of treatment and the agreement of patients to any intervention from a simple physical examination to the most complex surgical procedure...read more

Product Description: Violence within the family, whether directed against children, partners or elders, profoundly disturbs our notions of what the relationship between the family and the discipline of general practice should be. GPs are doctors to whole families and yet their relationships with patients are individual ones, drawing their strength from the principles of confidentiality, mutual trust and positive regard...read more

Based on the 'Medicine and Literature' column in 'Education for General Practice', this text shows how parallels between the characters in literature and the consulting room can be made through the understanding the authors had of the human predicament.