In his latest release, Care of the Soul in Medicine, Thomas Moore speaks to the importance of healing the whole person rather than simply treating a body. He gives advice to both health care providers and patients for maintaining dignity and humanity.
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Few experiences stir the emotions and throw a person into crisis as much as illness does, affecting not only the body but the spirit and soul. Unfortunately the current health-care system is not structured around these considerations. Doctors and other medical professionals are trained to treat the body part or organ, not the whole person. Despite the scientific advancements of modern medicine, the hospital can be a cold, sterile environment—and for that reason alone, people are not finding overall health and well-being in many of our health centers.
Care of the Soul in Medicine is Thomas Moore's vision for improving health care. Moore speaks to the importance of healing a person rather than simply treating a body.
    "This book is a kind of manifesto, written by someone who is a reflective patient and not a physician or medical researcher. It's a wake-up call and an initial charting of a new, all-embracing approach to medicine. It is not a grand detour into some New Age and esoteric kind of "healing," but a close examination of medicine as it is practiced today, with suggestions from a layman for how it could expand and embrace the whole person.
    There can be no doubt now that there is a serious movement in our culture toward a new way of being. In all areas, including medicine, old philosophies are breaking up and a new vision is falling into place. Religious institutions are facing the challenge of a more personal and immediate spirituality. In the United States, a black man and a woman competed for the presidency of the country, and the black man became president.
    The turn of a century, to say nothing of a millennium, invites us to rethink where we have arrived and what we're doing here. This is a good time —this year, this decade— to imagine a different future for medicine. This is the time to move in a new direction and not merely expand on the old one. This is the time for us all to become healers of persons rather than technicians of the body."
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While sharing stories from his personal and professional life, Thomas Moore gives advice to both health-care providers and patients for maintaining dignity and humanity, providing spiritual guidance for dealing with feelings of mortality and threat, and encouraging patients to not only take an active part in healing but also to view illness as a positive passage to new awareness. While we don't fully understand the extent to which healing depends on attitude, it has been shown that healing the body depends upon more than treating the sum of its parts.
The future of medicine is not only in new technical developments and research discoveries; it is also in appreciating the state of the soul and spirit in illness, and redefining the way in which the patient is cared for.
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