In this Book
- The Health Care Professional as Friend and Healer: Building on the Work of Edmund D. Pellegrino
- Book
- 2000
- Published by: Georgetown University Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-viii
- Part I: The Nature of the Health Care Professional
- The Physician-Patient Relationship
- pp. 13-23
- The Dentist as Healer and Friend
- pp. 35-48
- Part II: The Moral Basis of Health Care
- The Principle of Dominion
- pp. 133-147
- Part III: Current Challenges
- The Search for the Meaning of the Human Body
- pp. 177-187
- Money, Medicine, and Morals
- pp. 233-243
- Theology and Bioethics
- pp. 244-256
- Part IV: Medical Education
- Religious Elements in Healing
- pp. 278-290
Additional Information
ISBN
9781589014480
Related ISBN(s)
9780878408092, 9780878408108
MARC Record
OCLC
1017611809
Pages
320
Launched on MUSE
2018-01-03
Language
English
Open Access
No