the Moral Fabric of the Patient-Physician Relationship
edited by Earl E. Shelp.
Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1983
(332 pages).
Philosophy and medicine, 14.
Section I / Historical Inquiries and Perspectives --;Evolution of the Patient-Physician Relationship: Antiquity Through the Renaissance --;The Legacy of Modern Anglo-American Medical Ethics: Correcting Some Misperceptions --;American Medical Ethics and the Physician-Patient Relationship --;Section II / Models of the Patient-Physician Relationship --;Veatch, May, and Models: A Critical Review and a New View --;The Case for Contract in Medical Ethics --;A Rejoinder --;Legal Models of the Patient-Physician Relation --;The Common Law as a model of the Patient-Physician Relationship: A Response to Professor Brody --;Jewish Religious Law as a Model of the Patient-Physician Relationship: A Comment on Professor Brody's Essay --;Response to Franck and White --;Section III / Conceptual and Theoretical Analyses --;The Healing Relationship: The Architectonics of Clinical Medicine --;The Psychiatric Patient-Physician Relationship --;The Physician as Stranger: The Ethics of the Anonymous Patient-Physician Relationship --;The Internal Morality of Medicine: An Essential Dimension of the Patient-Physician Relationship --;Scope of the Therapeutic Relationship --;Section IV / Morality in the Patient-Physician Relationship --;The Physician-Patient Relationship in a Secular, Pluralist Society --;The Therapeutic Relationship: Is Moral Conduct a Necessary Condition? --;A Theological Context for the Relationship Between Patient and Physician --;Notes on Contributors.
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.