This book collects in one place the classic papers from family medicine from around the world. It serves as a showcase of some of the most important ideas and research carried out in family medicine and as an inspiration to family doctors as well as to doctors in training and medical students.
1. Arthur Conan Doyle on Medical humanism and our values as family
doctors (1894)
2. Joseph Collings on the transformation of family medicine
into a distinct medical discipline (1950)
3. Cees van den Dool on
Anticipatory medicine prevention as part of the consultation in family
medicine (1970)
4. Julian Tudor Hart on the Inverse Care Law (1971)
5.
Charles Bridges-Webb on How family medicine research can lead to systematic
understanding of health and illness within a local community (1973)
6. lan
McWhinney on Problem-solving and decision-making in family practice (1979)
7.
Gayle Stephens on the intellectual basis of family practice (1982)
8. James
W. Mold and colleagues on the shift to goal-oriented medical care (1991)
9.
James McCormick on the place of judgement in medicine (1994)
10. Cynthia Haq
and colleagues on the development of family medicine around the world (1995)
11. The World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) on Training the worlds
rural family medicine workforce (1995)
12. lan McWhinney on the importance of
being different (1996)
13. Alastair McColl, Helen Smith and colleagues on
Family doctors and evidence-based medicine (1998)
14. Chris van Weel and
Walter Rosser on the contribution of family medicine research to improving
global healthcare (2004)
15. Igor Svab and colleagues on Family medicine
development in Eastern Europe (2004)
16. John Gabbay and Andrée le May on New
perspectives on evidence-based medicine (2004)
17. Barbara Starlield and
colleagues on the contribution of primary care to health systems and health
(2005)
18. Julio Ceitlin on the development of family medicine in Latin
America (2006)
19. Paul Little and colleagues on the importance of research
in family medicine (2006)
20. James Macinko and colleagues on Family medicine
development in Brazil (2006)
21. Barbara Starfield on Global health, equity
and primary care (2007)
22. Harvey Chochinov on Dignity and the essence of
medicine (2007)
23. The World Health Organization on Primary care: Putting
people first (2008)
24. Kurt Stange and Robert Ferrer on the paradox of
primary care (2009)
25. Charles Boelen and Bob Woollard on Social
accountability and medical education (2009)
26. Bob Mash and Steve Reid on
Family medicine in Africa (2010)
27. Karen Barnett, Stewart Mercer and
colleagues on Multimorbidity (2012)
28. Leiyu Shi on the impact of primary
care and the importance of indicators (2012)
29. lona Heath on The art of
doing nothing (2012)
30. The State Council of the Peoples Republic of China
on Family medicine development in China (2013)
31. Amogh Basnyat on Family
medicine transforming rural primary care in Nepal (2013)
32. The World Health
Organization on Family medicine development in the nations of the Middle East
(2014)
33. Roger Ruiz Moral and colleagues on The challenge of assisting
people in improving adherence to medications (2015)
Professor Michael Kidd is a family doctor, primary care researcher and medical educator and dean of the faculty of health sciences based at Flinders University in Australia.He is a past president of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and has been a member of the WONCA world executive since 2004. In 2013 he took on Presidency.