Helping and Healing: Religious Commitment in Health Care

by Edmund D. Pellegrino

Book Overview

Exploring the moral foundations of the healing relationship, Edmund D. Pellegrino and David C. Thomasma offer the health care professional a highly readable Christian philosophy of medicine. This book examines the influence religious beliefs have on the kind of person the health professional should be, on the health care policies a society should adopt, and on what constitutes healing in its fullest sense.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878406433
• ISBN13: 9780878406432
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher