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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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