Healing as Vocation A Medical Professionalism Primer

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: 9780742534063
• ISBN10: 0742534065
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• 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

Practicing professionalism	p. 1
Professionalism and the social contract	p. 9
The birth of medical professionalism : professionalism and the role of professional associations	p. 23
Professionalism and commercialism as antitheticals : a search for "unprofessional commercialism" within the writings and work of American medicine	p. 35
After Cheng (sincerity): the professional ethics of traditional Chinese medicine	p. 61
Can justice be taught? : valuing justice and professionalism in the medical school curriculum	p. 77
Initiating and evaluating a program in ethics and professionalism for medical residents	p. 93
Two faces of professionalism	p. 103
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