Title | Theological Analyses of the Clinical Encounter [electronic resource] / edited by Gerald P. McKenny, Jonathan R. Sande |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1994 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8386-2 |
Descript | XX, 244 p. online resource |
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 โ 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