| The Health Care Professional as Friend and Healer: Building on the Work of Edmund D. Pellegrino Contributor(s): Thomasma, David C. (Editor), Kissell, Judith Lee (Editor) |
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ISBN: 087840810X ISBN-13: 9780878408108 Publisher: Georgetown University Press OUR PRICE: $59.35 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2000 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Ethics |
| Dewey: 174.2 |
| LCCN: 00026362 |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 6.01" W x 9" (1.10 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
