The Health Care Professional As Friend and Healer

by Pellegrino, Edmund D.; Kissell, Judith Lee

• ISBN13: 9780878408108
• ISBN10: 087840810X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Georgetown Univ Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	xv
David C. Thomasma
Judith Lee Kissell
A Profession of Trust: Reflections on a Fundamental Virtue	1	(12)
Leo J. O'Donovan
PART I: THE NATURE OF THE HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL
The Physician-Patient Relationship	13	(11)
G. Kevin Donovan
Friendship as an Ideal for the Patient-Physician Relationship: A Critique and an Alternative	24	(11)
F. Daniel Davis
The Dentist as Healer and Friend	35	(14)
Jos V.M. Welie
Learning through Experience and Expression: Skillful Ethical Comportment in Nursing Practice	49	(16)
Patricia Benner
Engendering Trust in a Pluralistic Society	65	(10)
Marian Gray Secundy
Rodger L. Jackson
PART II: THE MORAL BASIS OF HEALTH CARE
Internal and External Sources of Morality for Medicine	75	(12)
Robert M. Veatch
Doctoring and the (Neglected) Virtue of Self-Forgiveness	87	(19)
Jeffrey Blustein
Moral Courage: Unsung Resource for Health Professional as Healer and Friend	106	(7)
Ruth B. Purtillo
The Six Transformations of American Health Care	113	(20)
John Collins Harvey
The Principle of Dominion	133	(15)
David C. Thomasma
Organizational Ethics and the Medical Professional: Reappraising Roles and Responsibilities	148	(17)
George Khushf
PART III: CURRENT CHALLENGES
Reproductive Technologies: Where Are We Headed?	165	(12)
Richard A. McCormick
The Search for the Meaning of the Human Body	177	(11)
Judith Lee Kissell
Healing and Dying: Spiritual Issues in the Care of the Dying Patient	188	(10)
Daniel P. Sulmasy
Prophet to the Profession: Healing and Physician-Assisted Suicide	198	(12)
Courtney S. Campbell
The Role of Reason, Emotion, and Aesthetics in Making Ethical Judgments	210	(17)
Erich H. Loewy
The Contribution of Philosophical Hermeneutics to Clinical Ethics	227	(6)
Lazare Benaroyo
Money, Medicine, and Morals	233	(11)
William S. Andereck
Theology and Bioethics	244	(15)
Richard A. McCormick
PART IV: MEDICAL EDUCATION
Teaching the Humanities in American Medical Schools during the Twentieth Century: A Commentary on the Two Dominant Models	259	(8)
Chester R. Burns
Reflections on the Humanities and Medical Education: Balancing History, Theory, and Practice	267	(11)
Thomas K. McElhinney
Religious Elements in Healing	278	(13)
Glenn C. Graber
Bradford R. Smith
Index	291