What Patients Teach: The Everyday Ethics of Health Care

by David Schenck, Larry R. Churchill, Joseph B. Fanning

Book Overview

Being a patient is a unique interpersonal experience but it is also a universal human experience. The relationships formed when we are patients can also teach some of life's most important lessons, and these relationships provide a special window into ethics, especially the ethics of healthcare professionals. This book answers two basic questions: As patients see it, what things allow relationships with healthcare providers to become therapeutic?...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190650583
• ISBN13: 9780190650582
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.2"