The Clinical Encounter The Moral Fabric of the Patient-Physician Relationship

The encounter between patient and physician may be characterized as the focus of medicine. As such, the patient-physician relationship, or more accurately the conduct of patients and physicians, has been the subject of considerable comment, inquiry, and debate throughout the centuries. The issues an...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Shelp, E.E. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1983, 1983
Edition:1st ed. 1983
Series:Philosophy and Medicine
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Section I / Historical Inquiries and Perspectives
  • Evolution of the Patient-Physician Relationship: Antiquity Through the Renaissance
  • The Legacy of Modern Anglo-American Medical Ethics: Correcting Some Misperceptions
  • American Medical Ethics and the Physician-Patient Relationship
  • Section II / Models of the Patient-Physician Relationship
  • Veatch, May, and Models: A Critical Review and a New View
  • The Case for Contract in Medical Ethics
  • A Rejoinder
  • Legal Models of the Patient-Physician Relation
  • The Common Law as a model of the Patient-Physician Relationship: A Response to Professor Brody
  • Jewish Religious Law as a Model of the Patient-Physician Relationship: A Comment on Professor Brody’s Essay
  • Response to Franck and White
  • Section III / Conceptual and Theoretical Analyses
  • The Healing Relationship: The Architectonics of Clinical Medicine
  • The Psychiatric Patient-Physician Relationship
  • The Physician as Stranger: The Ethics of the Anonymous Patient-Physician Relationship
  • The Internal Morality of Medicine: An Essential Dimension of the Patient-Physician Relationship
  • Scope of the Therapeutic Relationship
  • Section IV / Morality in the Patient-Physician Relationship
  • The Physician-Patient Relationship in a Secular, Pluralist Society
  • The Therapeutic Relationship: Is Moral Conduct a Necessary Condition?
  • A Theological Context for the Relationship Between Patient and Physician
  • Notes on Contributors