Theological Analyses of the Clinical Encounter
Efforts to evaluate the clinical encounter in terms of autonomous agents governed by rationally justified moral principles continue to be criticised. These essays, written by physicians, ethicists, theologians and philosophers, examine various models of the clinical encounter emerging out of these c...
| Other Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1994, 1994
|
| Edition: | 1st ed. 1994 |
| Series: | Theology and Medicine
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | |
| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Section I: The Medical Covenant Past, Present, and Future
- Interpreting the Physician-Patient Relationship: Uses, Abuses, and Promise of the Covenant Model
- The Medical Covenant: An Ethics of Obligation or Virtue?
- Trust in the Clinical Encounter: Implications for a Covenant Model
- Section II: Principles in Revision
- Autonomy and Trust in the Clinical Encounter: Reflections from a Theological Perspective
- Exousia: Healing with Authority in the Christian Tradition
- Conflicting Loyalties: Beneficence — Love within Limits
- Empowerment in the Clinical Setting
- Section III: Beyond Principles
- Listening to the Different Voices: Toward a More Poetic Bioethics
- Reason, Narrative, and Rhetoric: A Theoretical Collage for the Clinical Encounter
- Illness and the Other
- Cultural Diversity and the Clinical Encounter: Intercultural Dialogue in Multi-Ethnic Patient Care
- Conclusion: Theology, Ethics, and Clinical Encounters: Possibilities for Reconciliation?
- Notes on Contributors