The Health Care Professional As Friend and Healer: Building on the Work of Edmund D. Pellegrino

Pellegrino, Edmund D. (Editor)/ Kissell, Judith Lee (Editor)

ISBN 10: 087840810X / ISBN 13: 9780878408108

Published by Georgetown Univ Pr, 2000

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1st edition. 303 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Health Care Professional As Friend and Healer: Building on the Work of Edmund D. Pellegrino
• Publisher: Georgetown Univ Pr
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 087840810X
• ISBN 13: 9780878408108
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.52 kilograms

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

David C. Thomasma is the Fr. Michael I. English, SJ, Professor of Medical Ethics and Director of the Medical Humanities Program at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago. Among his more than twenty books is Helping and Healing, with Edmund D. Pellegrino (Georgetown, 1997).

Judith Lee Kissell is an assistant professor at Georgia College and State University.