Healing as Vocation: A Medical Professionalism Primer

Book 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742534073
• ISBN13: 9780742534070
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 8.9"