The health care professional as friend and healer : building on the work of Edmund D. Pellegrino / David C. Thomasma, Judith Lee Kissell, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pellegrino, Edmund D., 1920-2013.

Thomasma, David C., 1939-

Kissell, Judith Lee

Samuel Bellet Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical ethics.

Physicians--Attitudes.

Physicians.

Humanism.

Medical education.

Physical Description:

xv, 303 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [2000]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Samuel Bellet Book Fund.

ISBN:

0878408096

087840810X

OCLC:

43555032