Healing as Vocation

by Parsi, Kayhan; Sheehan, Myles; Baldwin, DeWitt C., Jr.; Boisaubin, Eugene; Chang, Heidi; Cruess, Richard; Cruess, Sylvia; Fitz, Matthew; Greene, Virginia; Hafferty, Frederic W.; Kuczewski, Mark; Leach, David C.; Lynch, Deirdre; Michelfelder, Aaron J.; Nie

• ISBN13: 9780742534070
• ISBN10: 0742534073
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-11
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This collection of essays provides educators in medicine and the health sciences an illuminating and challenging introduction to professionalism. The book takes a practical approach toward this topic, looking at what professionalism means, for the individual physician's relationship to his or her patients, the medical profession as a whole, and to society at large. The essays are written by leading scholars and thinkers in the area of professionalism in medicine. Although the intended audience is primarily physicians, medical students and residents, the book is a suitable primer for pre-professional health care students as well.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Myles N. Sheehan and Kayhan Parsi
1 Practicing Professionalism	1	(8)
David C. Leach, Patricia M. Surdyk, and Deirdre C. Lynch
2 Professionalism and the Social Contract	9	(14)
Sylvia R. Cruess and Richard L. Cruess
3 The Birth of Medical Professionalism: Professionalism and the Role of Professional Associations	23	(12)
Matthew Wynia
4 Professionalism and Commercialism as Antitheticals: A Search for "Unprofessional Commercialism" within the Writings and Work of American Medicine	35	(26)
Frederic W Hafferty
5 After Cheng (Sincerity): The Professional Ethics of Traditional Chinese Medicine	61	(16)
fing-Bao Nie
6 Can Justice Be Taught? Valuing Justice and Professionalism in the Medical School Curriculum	77	(16)
Mark G. Kuczewski, Frank Villaume, Heidi Chang, Matthew Fitz, Eva Bading, and Aaron Michelfelder
7 Initiating and Evaluating a Program in Ethics and Professionalism for Medical Residents	93	(10)
Eugene V Boisaubin, Virginia Greene, Allison R. Ownby, and Mark Farnie
8 Two Faces of Professionalism	103	(16)
DeWitt C. Baldwin Jr.
List of Contributors	119	(2)
Index	121