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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199331189
• ISBN13: 9780199331185
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.3"