Humane Health Care International articles from January 1997

Humane Health Care International archives from January 1997

Impermanence and continuity of humanism in medicine.
January 1, 1997... Twenty years ago, I would have complained loudly about the disappearance of such an important journal as Humane Health Care International, which initially was called quite appropriately, Humane Medicine. Indeed, when they decided to launch the...

On letters to the editor.
January 1, 1997... Letters to the editor are the editor's friends. Without them, the editor lives alone wondering if anybody cares. Letters complete the circle of communication and maintain the relationship. Without letters to the editor, the publication would...

Tribute to Dimitrios Oreopoulos: theologian, philosopher and humanitarian.
January 1, 1997... Dr. Dimitrios Oreopoulos, an internationally renowned physician-scientist, has performed the rather miraculous feat of being the senior editor of three journals simultaneously over many years, even while serving as president of an international...

Commitment to medicine: in honour of Dimitrios Oreopoulos.
January 1, 1997... In the summer of 1989, a tall man in a dark suit appeared at the newly established Geriatric Clinic at the Veterans Hospital in Albuquerque. The owner of a wonderfully rich Greek accent, Dr. Dimitrios Oreopoulos had just arrived for the start...

Tribute to John O. Godden: the writing matters.
January 1, 1997... Jack Godden is a man of many facets: father, soldier, physician, teacher, and editor. It has been as our editor that so many of us have come to know him. From 1961 to 1998 Jack has offered steady, consistent editorial advice and service to...

Pair of worthies (John O. Godden and Dimitrios G. Oreopoulos).
January 1, 1997... We now come upon a group of worthies . . . whose connection with the famous Lunar Society shed a lustre upon the history of Birmingham, while it increases considerably the reverence which every true Birmingham man has for the name of Soho. ...

Celebrating humane health care: palliative care provides a model.
January 1, 1997... Correspondence and reprint requests to: M. Jane Fulton, School of Natural and Health Sciences, Barry University, 11300 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, Florida 33161. The old saying, "Everyone wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die first"...

Health-care reform, the future of medicine, and the return of power to the community.
January 1, 1997... * Former Associate Director of Health Policy, Ontario Medical Association. Correspondence and reprint requests to: J. Krauser, 2340 Truscott Drive, Mississauga, Ontario L5J 2B2. The medical profession has excelled in providing clinical...

Our dreams are us: engaging in humane medical-ethical conversion.
January 1, 1997... It was with deep sadness that I received an invitation to write a short note about the "twelve year experiment in professional/community dialogue" that Humane Medicine (Humane Health Care International) represented and the "lessons learned,...

Journey of simultaneous exploration in ethics.
January 1, 1997... In our past explorations, the tradition was to discover something and then formulate it into answers and solutions that could be widely transferred. But now we are on a journey of simultaneous exploration. (1) This quote captures for me...

Relationship-centredness: the essential nature of humane health care.
January 1, 1997... We need radical changes in the health-care industry. The impersonal manner in which the industry is peddling its wares is deadly to our souls and spirits, eroding the quality (if not the quantity) of life for both givers and receivers of care....

Historical precendents for the demise of Humane Medicine.
January 1, 1997... Contemplating the unfortunate fact that Humane Medicine (Humane Health Care International) is forced to cease publication, I am reminded of a number of precedents. It will be little comfort to the editors, perhaps, to realize that premature...

Benefits of schizoprenia.
January 1, 1997... Humane Medicine's vision of open dialogue between care provider and care recipient had meant a lot to me personally because I have spent my professional career involved in the care of very severely psychiatrically ill individuals who,...

Humane Health Care International: "a journal guided by knowledge and inspired by humanistic dialogue".
January 1, 1997... Since 1990, I have been a faithful reader of the journal with which I shared the view that the science and art of medicine are not opposites, but supplementary to each other. In fact, the core of the art of medicine is humanism. The...

This bit of journalistic humaneness.
January 1, 1997... Congratulations. Let's celebrate 12 good years of a special journal. The closing down of anything "humane" these days is a warning that non-humaneness may be gaining ground; it leaves a gap crying out to be filled. Looking through my stack...

Dialogue: on dying with cystic fibrosis.
January 1, 1997... My initial response to the call for submissions to the final edition of Humane Medicine (Humane Health Care International) was sadness and regret at the loss of such an important publication. Over the years Humane Medicine has brought to light...

Who will carry the torch for humane health care?
January 1, 1997... As contributors and subscribers, we view with great sadness the demise of Humane Health Care International. We were comforted by the fact that this international journal provided a forum for dialogue among health-care professionals and the...

Dispossessed: who will heed their voices?
January 1, 1997... In the high-technology world of institutionalized health care, where outcomes are measured in terms of reduced in-patient time, and patients' conditions are monitored more by impersonal machinery than the human touch, the caring in health care...

Karen Ann Quinlan: repairing the "worn clothes" of caring.
January 1, 1997... During Humane Medicine's 13-year lifetime, a baker's dozen of volumes, it has yeasted the growth of a better way of viewing the practice and goals of medicine. What ought these practices and goals be? The renaissance physician, Edmund...

Art of Robert Pope.
January 1, 1997... I never imagined myself as a best-selling author. I certainly didn't think such a thing would result from an article I submitted to Humane Medicine, but my paper "The Art of Robert Pope" (1) later was published as a small book, illustrated with...

Friend that came in the mail.
January 1, 1997... Re: "In its short life, Human Medicine has made a difference because . . ." I found Humane Medicine in its introductory issue. I asked my general practitioner if I could have it and he was glad to give it to me. Mine is a difficult world....

Warmth for our "coldness".
January 1, 1997... I look upon the demise of Humane Medicine with great sadness. We should never underestimate the fragility of publications such as these. That which makes them so important is also that which makes it difficult for them to survive: the extreme...

Care, human and humane.
January 1, 1997... Care has always been the essential element of clinical therapeutics, as well as of the international periodical carrying the words "Health Care" in its title. Marking the twelfth--and, regrettably, final--year of this pioneering publication,...

Humane Health Care International: a prophetic voice.
January 1, 1997... As a contributor and reviewer, I perceive Humane Health Care International to be prophetic, calling on the health professions to recover the art of medicine, without losing the science. Papers published in this journal counter the pernicious...

Wounded healer.
January 1, 1997... Over the 10 years of my acquaintance with Humane Medicine, as a reader, as a lay person whose comments have been recorded in the editorial pages, and as a human being seeking to find the path to home, it has become part of me, its message of...

Facing anger and despair in cancer: creating a climate for hope.
January 1, 1997... 1 Humane Medicine Volume 1, Number 1, 1985, pp. 5-10. This paper, the first paper in our first number, took Humane Medicine to the heart of human experience, to the profound emotions--chiefly those of anger and despair--that the patient and...

Unpacking the concept of human dignity in humane(e) death.
January 1, 1997... 1 Humane Medicine Volume 11, Number 4, 1995, pp. 148-151. 2 This is a commentary by M.A. Somerville on a paper by Sylvia D. Stolberg entitled "Human Dignity and Disease, Disability, Suffering: A Philosophical Contribution to the Euthanasia...

Primary care crisis.
January 1, 1997... Part I: The Contribution of Anti-Scientism 1 Part I: Humane Medicine Volume 2, Number 2, 1986, pp. 96-99; Part II: Humane Medicine Volume 3, Number 1, 1987, pp. 20-25; Part III: Humane Medicine Volume 7, Number 3, 1991, pp. 189-194....

Florence Nightingale: founder of modern nursing, pt1: the Crimean experience.
January 1, 1997... Ms. Baly, a nurse who earned her doctorate for research on the fate of the Florence Nightingale Fund, reminds us of our continuing debt to the life and work of this complex and still influential Victorian woman. 1 Humane Medicine Volume 2,...

Breaking the silence: recovery from incest, with afterword.
January 1, 1997... This author, writing under a pseudonym, tells her harrowing story as a victim of parental incest. In so doing, she urges us to listen, ponder, and respond so as to move against this "soul murder." 1 Humane Medicine Volume 11, Number 1,...

Illness and healing: the art of Robert Pope, with afterword.
January 1, 1997... During his short life (he died of cancer before he was 30) Robert Pope recorded the world of the cancer patient in a series of unforgettable canvases and, in doing so, enlarged the vision of a generation of caregivers. 1 Humane Medicine...

Finality of death: the underlying issue, with afterword.
January 1, 1997... This modest, quietly stated paper poses for modern audiences a question as old as our race: "Is death final?" His answer has comforted many of our readers. 1 Humane Medicine Volume 5, Number 1, 1989, pp. 31-36. Underneath the debate...

I'm dying to tell you: my experiences with ovarian cancer.
January 1, 1997... Ms. Estok received word that we would publish her moving (and troubling) testimony as she was dying from widely disseminated ovarian cancer. 1 Humane Health Care International Volume 12, Number 4, 1996, pp. 185-190. With the...

Rose in the fire: a meditation on soul-making.
January 1, 1997... "At the heart of the matter we find the mystery, the presence in which we are all one." In metaphor and poetic imagery, this beloved Jungian analyst takes us to the centre of life--to the experience of soul-making. 1 Humane Medicine Volume...

Physicians and the dying: searching for the human connection.
January 1, 1997... This short, but moving and memorable paper, reminds us that by being present and by listening, we can do much to relieve the dying of the fear of abandonment and of premature severance from the world of the living. 1 Humane Medicine Volume...

On remaining whole.
January 1, 1997... A teacher of English who is dying of cancer leaves to Robert, a medical student, her legacy: an informal but intimately human code of ethics. This brief testimony catches, clearly and in depth, the vision of humane health care. 1 Humane...

Ethical implications of human suffering, with afterword.
January 1, 1997... Sister Kenny recalls us to an ancient duty--that of the alleviation of suffering. As a clinician and ethicist, she warns us that our care will remain incomplete until we can embrace the suffering of our patients. 1 Humane Medicine Volume...

Face to face.
January 1, 1997... This revered journalist, patient advocate, and consultant to Faculties of Medicine, reminds us that the success of the science calls for great skill in the art of medicine. He urges us to listen if we are to treat the patient with respect and...

Healing and incurable illness, with afterword.
January 1, 1997... This moving testimony by a philosopher, who for more than 30 years has lived with increasing disability from multiple sclerosis, shows us that healing--the process of restoring and preserving a sense of harmony--does not depend upon integrity...

Narcissus at the movies: our love affair with the silver screen.
January 1, 1997... [Translated by Tom Kelly] 1 Humane Medicine Volume 3, Number 2, 1987, pp. 103-109. This clear, sardonic account of our fascination with and addiction to "the silver screen," shows us how vulnerable we are to fantasy and wish...

Wise and healthy living: a commonsense approach for aging well.
January 1, 1997... R.D. Underwood and B.B. Underwood Self-Council Press, North Vancouver, B.C., 1990; 104 p. Wise and Healthy Living: A Commonsense Approach for Aging Well, by Richard and Brenda Underwood is another of the retirement series from...

Memory slips: the memoir of music and healing.
January 1, 1997... Linda Katherine Cutting Harper Collins, New York City, N.Y., 1997; 240 p. This book is about the author's struggle with memories of abuse that intruded into her life and threatened to destroy it. Two of her brothers had already...

Euthanasia: death, dying and the medical duty.
January 1, 1997... British Medical Council British Medical Bulletin, Volume 52(2), April 1996. Physicians in increasing numbers have come to accept that euthanasia and assisted suicide have a legitimate role to play in medical practice--that in...

Please listen to me: your guide to understanding teenagers and suicide.
January 1, 1997... Please Listen to Me: Your Guide to Understanding Teenagers and Suicide and Suicide: Teens Talk to Teens Marion Crook Self-Council Press, North Vancouver, B.C., 1992; Self-Council Press, North Vancouver, B.C., 1997. In Canada, the...

Suicide: teens talk to teens.
January 1, 1997... Marion Crook Marion Crook's most recent book Suicide: Teens Talk to Teens, is a much more powerful and unconventional work. She accepted the teens themselves as the experts on their own pain and has allowed their voices to convey the...

Health against wealth: HMO's and the breakdown of medical trust.
January 1, 1997... George Anders Saunders of Toronto, A Division of Thomas, Allen and Sons Limited, Toronto, Ontario, 1996; 299 p. ISBN 0-395-82283-1 Over the past decade, there has been an explosive growth in managed-care systems in the United States....

Beliefs: the heart of healing in families and illness.
January 1, 1997... Lorraine M. Wright, Wendy L. Watson, and Janice M. Bell Basic Books HarperCollins, 1996 324 p. ISBN 0-465-02317-7 This is an interesting book for health-care professionals who assist individuals suffering from chronic illnesses. The...

Re: the conspiracy of silence: the story of Mrs. G.
January 1, 1997... The editors note with regret that this valuable paper appeared in HHCI's Volume 13, Number 3, Fall 1997 pp. 85-86 without its introductory paragraphs, namely: Within medical ethical literature and medical journals publishing bioethical...

Twilight reflection.
January 1, 1997... With mixed emotions I sat down to write this farewell note: emotions of pride for what we have achieved in the last 13 years; happiness for all the friends I have made through this effort; gratitude for the touching letters that we received;...