Healing as Vocation: A Medical Professionalism Primer

by DeWitt C. Baldwin Jr. (Contribution by), Eugene Boisaubin (Contribution by), Heidi Chang (Contribution by), Richard Cruess (Contribution by), Sylvia Cruess (Contribution by)

Overview

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, to the medical profession as a whole, and to society at large. Written by leading scholars and thinkers in the area of professionalism in medicine, contributors provide a well-rounded analysis of this important topic. 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780742534063
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	08/11/2006
Series:	Practicing Bioethics
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Kayhan P. Parsi, JD, PhD is assistant professor at the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy of the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. He is also the graduate program director of the online master's program in bioethics at the Neiswanger Institute. Myles Sheehan, SJ, MD is Senior Associate Dean of the Education Program and Professor of Medicine at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. He is also a Jesuit and a priest.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Chapter 1. Practicing Professionalism
Chapter 3 Chapter 2. Professionalism and the Social Contract
Chapter 4 Chapter 3. The Birth of Medical Professionalism: Professionalism and the Role of Professional Associations
Chapter 5 Chapter 4. Professionalism and Commercialism as Antitheticals: A Search for "Unprofessional Commercialism" Within the Writings and Work of American Medicine
Chapter 6 Chapter 5. After Cheng (Sincerity): The Professional Ethics of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Chapter 7 Chapter 6. Can Justice Be Taught? Valuing Justice and Professionalism in the Medical School Curriculum
Chapter 8 Chapter 7. Initiating and Evaluating a Program in Ethics and Professionalism for Medical Students
Chapter 9 Chapter 8. Two Faces of Professionalism

Editorial Reviews

Consumer-driven health care is here to stay and will evolve as the American answer to meet the needs of the uninsured and the wealthy. How should the health care profession relate to the society it serves when that society treats it as just one more lucrative service industry? This volume helps to answer that question. New and seasoned professionals alike can ground themselves in the principles that underlie the vocation of healing. The contributors to this volume are to be commended in providing the anchors to professionalism. It is a gift to society of great worth.

Linda Emanuel

Many physicians and educators propose a simple solution for today's moral crisis in medicine. 'Let's teach professionalism,' they say, as if professionalism were a foreign language, or an all-purpose set of rules. In Healing as Vocation, editors Parsi and Sheehan reject such superficial notions of medical professionalism. They present the reader with a series of fine essays by some of the best writers in the field. Each of these pieces sheds light on a different aspect of the complex character of medical virtue and the healing profession. A deeply provocative work.

Jack Coulehan