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

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The Health Care Professional as Friend and Healer: Building on the Work of Edmund D. Pellegrino - Thomasma, David C. (Editor), and Kissell, Judith Lee (Editor)
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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, ...

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The Health Care Professional as Friend and Healer: Building on the Work of Edmund D. Pellegrino 2000, Georgetown University Press, Washington, DC

ISBN-13: 9780878408108

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