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The Clinical Encounter - The Moral Fabric of the Patient-Physician Relationship (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1983)
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The Clinical Encounter - The Moral Fabric of the Patient-Physician Relationship (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1983)
Series: Philosophy and Medicine, 14
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The encounter between patient and physician may be characterized as
the focus of medicine. As such, the patient-physician relationship,
or more accurately the conduct of patients and physicians, has been
the subject of considerable comment, inquiry, and debate throughout
the centuries. The issues and concerns discussed, apart from those
more specifically related to medical theory and therapy, range from
matters of etiquette to profound questions of philosophical and
moral interest. This discourse is impressive with respect both to
its duration and content. Contemporary scholars and laypeople have
made their contribution to these long-standing discussions. In
addition, they have actively addressed those distinctively modern
issues that have arisen as a result of increased medical knowledge,
improved technology, and changing cultural and moral expectation.
The concept of the patient-physician rela tionship that supposedly
provides a framework for the conduct of patients and physicians
seemingly has taken on a life of its own, inviolable, and subject
to norms particular to it. The essays in this volume elucidate the
nature of the patient-physician relationship, its character, and
moral norms appropriate to it. The purpose of the collection is to
enhance our understanding of that context, which many consider to
be the focus of the entire medical enterprise. The con tributors
have not engaged in apologetics, polemics, homiletics, or em
piricism."
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