Description
Book SynopsisThere is a wisdom or perennial philosophy based on compassionate love that, Fricchione stresses, the medical community must take advantage of in designing future health care-and society must appreciate as it faces its separation challenges.
Trade Review"The finest statement yet on the evolution of compassionate care and why it is so essential to the well-being of patients." (Stephen G. Post, Stony Brook University)"
Table of ContentsPreface
Part I: Introduction: Knowledge, Meaning, and Healing, and the Consilience of Medicine
1. The Medical Mission and Evolution
2. Two Realms of Knowledge—Or One?
3. Knowledge, Meaning, and Healing
Part II: The Biological Foundations of the Evolutionary Need for Attachment Solutions
4. Evolution of the Protocell
5. Cellular Evolution
6. Animal Evolution
Part III: The Foundations in Brain Evolution of Knowledge, Meaning, and Healing
7. Evolution of the Brain
8. Structuring the Brain to Know and Act
9. Memory and Motivation
10. Meaning, Healing, and the Brain
Part IV: The Neurobehavioral and Cultural Foundations of the Need for Attachment Solutions
11. Separation, Attachment, and Human Development
12. Separation, Attachment, and the Life Cycle
13. The Social Neuroscience of Separation and Attachment
14. Consciousness, Language, and Their Origins
15. Evolutionary Consciousness
16. Implications for Society, Culture, and Ethics
Part V: The Theoretical Foundations of the Need for Attachment Solutions
17. An Evolutionary True Cause?
18. Investigating the Separation Challenge–Attachment Solution Hypothesis
19. A Testable Hypothesis
20. Analogies and Analysis
Part VI: The Implications of the Separation Challenge-Attachment Solution Hypothesis
21. Implications for the Mission of Modern Medicine
22. Implications for Medicine at the End of Life
Postscript: A Commentary on Human Evolution
References
Index
