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
David C. Thomasma and Judith Lee Kissell
A Profesion of Trust: Reflections on a Fundamental Virtue
Leo J. O'Donovan, SJ
Part I The Nature of the Health Care Professional
The Physician-Patient Relationship
G. Kevin Donovan
Friendship as an Ideal for the Patient-Physician Relationship: Critique and an Alternative
F. Daniel Davis
The Dentist as Healer and Friend
Jos V.M. Welie
Learning through Experience and Expression: Skillful Ethical Comportment in Nursing Practice
Patricia Benner
Engendering Trust in a Pluralistic Society
Marian Gray Secundy and Rodger L. Jackson
Part II The Moral Basis of Health Care
Internal and External Sources of Morality for Medicine
Robert M. Veatch
Doctoring and the (Neglected) Virtue of Self-Forgiveness
Jeffrey Blustein
Moral Courage: Unsung Resource for Health Professional as Healer and Friend
Ruth B. Purtillo
The Six Transformations of American Health Care
Joan Collins Henry
The Principle fo Dominion
David C. Thomasma
Organizational Ethics and the Medical Professional: Reappraising Roles and Responsibilities
George Khushf
Part III Current Challenges
Reproductive Technologies: Where Are We Headed?
Richard A. McCormick, SJ
The Search for the Meaning of the Human Body
Judith Lee Kissell
Healing and Dying: Spiritual Issues in the Care of the Dying Patient
Daniel P. Sulmasy, OFM
Prophet to the Profession: Healing and Physician-Assisted Suicide
Courtney S. Campbell
The Role of Reason, Emotion and Aesthetics in Making Ehtical Judgments
Erich H. Loewy
The Contribution of Philosophical Hermeneutics to Clinical Ethics
Lazare Benaroyo
Money, Medicine, and Morals
William S. Andereck
Theology and Bioethics
Richard A. McCormick, SJ
Part IV Medical Education
Teaching the Humanities in American Medical Schools during the Twentieth Century: A Commentary on the Two Dominant Models
Chester R. Burns
Reflections on the Humanities and Medical Education: Balancing History, Theory, and Practice
Thomas K. McElhinney
Religious Elements in Healing
Glenn C. Graber and Bradford R. Smith
Index
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.
