The health care proffesional as friend and healer
building on the work of Edmund D.Pellegrino
- ISBN: 9780878408108
- Editorial: Georgetown University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2015
- Lugar de la edición: Washington, D.C.. Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 22 cm
- Nº Pág.: 301
- Idiomas: Inglés
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.