The Health Care Professional as Friend and Healer

Building on the Work of Edmund D. Pellegrino

David C Thomasma editor Judith Lee Kissell editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Georgetown University Press

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The Health Care Professional as Friend and Healer cover

This book illuminates issues in medical ethics revolving around the complex bond between healer and patient, focusing on friendship and other important values in the healing relationship. Embracing medicine, philosophy, theology, and bioethics, it considers whether bioethical issues in medicine, nursing, and dentistry can be examined from the perspective of the healing relationship rather than external moral principles. Distinguished contributors explore the role of the health professional, the moral basis of health care, greater emphasis on the humanities in medical education, and some of the current challenges facing healers today.

ISBN: 9780878408108

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 508g

320 pages