The Lost Art of Caring: A Challenge to Health Professionals, Families, Communities, and Society

ISBN 10: 0801865913 / ISBN 13: 9780801865916

Published by Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Lost Art of Caring: A Challenge to Health Professionals, Families, Communities, and Society
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801865913
• ISBN 13: 9780801865916
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In The Lost Art of Caring, Leighton E. Cluff, M.D., and Robert H. Binstock, Ph.D., bring together experts to address the importance of caring, the reasons why it has eroded, and measures that can strengthen caring as provided by health professionals, families, communities, and society.

About the Authors

Leighton E. Cluff, M.D., is a professor emeritus at the University of Florida College of Medicine and former president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Robert H. Binstock (1935–2011) was, at the time of his death, a professor of aging, health, and society at Case Western Reserve University, where he taught in the public health program and also in the departments of medicine, epidemiology and biostatistics, bioethics, and in the School of Nursing and the College of Arts and Sciences.