Main description:

The 21st is being recognized as the Century of the Person, particularly in Medicine and Health. Person Centered Medicine, as a concept and global programmatic movement developed in collaboration with the World Medical Association, World Health Organization, International Council of Nurses and 30 other institutions over a decade of annual Geneva Conferences, places the whole person as the center of health and as the goal and protagonist of health actions. Seeking the person at the center of medicine, has meant a medicine of the person, for the person, by the person and with the person. Articulating science and humanism, it strives for a medicine informed by evidence, experience and values and aimed at the restoration and promotion of health for all.

The textbook on Person Centered Medicine reviews this perspective as it has evolved to date and its resulting knowledge base. The book structure encompasses an Introduction to the field and four sections on Principles, Methods, Specific Health Fields, and Empowerment Perspectives. Its 42 chapters are authored by 105 clinician-scholars from 25 different countries across world regions (North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Oceania). Its vision and goals involve total health for a total person. Ongoing work and upcoming publications would focus on redesigning health systems fit to purpose, articulating science and humanism, and integrating ancestral knowledge and wisdom, community members' self- and mutual-care, advances in medical science, and the contributions of health-relevant social sectors.

Contents:

A. Principles of Person Centered Medicine (PCM):

1. A brief history of the rise of person centered medicine (PCM), including semantic shifts and moving boundaries: person-centered medicine and people-centred care.

2. Philosophical perspectives on PCM

3. The eight key concepts of PCM

4. The core concepts of person-centered clinical governance

B. Methods for Person Centered Clinical Care (PCCC)(content, structure, processes)

1. Engagement

2. Assessment and diagnosis

3. Treatment planning

4. Education and counselling

5. Narrative medicine

6. Rehabilitation

7. Prevention

8. Salutogenesis and health promotion

C. Settings for Clinical Care and Clinical Governance

1. Ambulatory clinics

2. Emergency care

3. Hospital care

4. Intensive care units

5. Surgical units

6. Retirement homes

7. Hospices

8. Low-income communities

9. Conflict zones/refugees

10. Health care in prisons

D. Clinical Specialties

1. General practice/family medicine

2. Neonatology

3. Pediatrics

4. Gerontology

5. Palliative care

6. Surgery

7. Obstetrics-Gynaecology

8. Cardiology

9. Pulmonary medicine

10. Oncology

11. Endocrinology

12. Gastroenterology

13. Neurology

14. Psychiatry and Psychology

15. Nursing

16. Chinese traditional medicine

17. Ayurvedic medicine

18. Chiropraxis