Health humanities for quality of care in times of COVID-19 / Maria Giulia Marini, Jonathan McFarland, editors.

The Covid pandemic has led us into an upheaval that has made us question the certainties underlying what it means to be a human being in our age; the ability to control medical and social facts through evidence. For the first-time western and developed countries have had to confront what many popula...

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Other Authors: Marini, Maria Giulia (Editor), McFarland, Jonathan (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, [2022]
Series:New paradigms in healthcare.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 The COVID-19 pandemic: the possible scientific and layman narratives for its origin. The consequences of the pandemic on the human being according to the biological psychological social and existential model and to the biomedical model
  • 2 The pandemy of lies, fakenews and misinformation during the COVID-19 crisis
  • 3 Crossing the first wave of COVID -19: the engaging and disengaging factors for coping for speaking about burn out and the trauma of health care providers
  • 4 The grief for the loss: The Impossibility of funeral rituals during the lock down, and the need to mourn the people died. The increase of mental illness condition due to the high psychological toll
  • 5 The Consolation of the Written Word: Reading and Writing to Engage and Escape the Pandemic
  • 6 The interplay between art and nature as factors for wellbeing
  • 7 Spirituality as the basis and foundation of the medical profession for a holistic understanding of the human being as a bio-psycho-socio-spiritual entity
  • 8 The long Covid-19: time for resilience for health care providers, citizens, students, patients, caregivers
  • 9 Health care organization: roles and actors of the districts, of the community care, home care and of the hospital setting, bioethical decisions on quality and quantity of life
  • 10 So far so near: telemedicine, teleconsulting, distant teaching and smart working in health care and social services
  • 11 Towards a new respect for the ecosystem and the humans: advices for economy, industry, labour forces, schools and academies. .