Download or read book The Health Care Professional as Friend and Healer written by David C. Thomasma and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-04 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.