Healing as Vocation: A Medical Professionalism Primer

by Kayhan Parsi (Editor), DeWitt C. Baldwin Jr. (Contributor), Eugene Boisaubin (Contributor)

This collection of essays provides educators in medicine and the health sciences an illuminating and challenging introduction to professionalism. The book takes a practical approach toward this topic, looking at what professionalism means, for the individual physician's relationship to his or her patients, to the medical profession as a whole, and to society at large. Written by leading scholars and thinkers in the area of professionalism in medicine, contributors provide a well-rounded analysis of this important topic. Although the intended audience is primarily physicians, medical students and residents, the book is a suitable primer for pre-professional health care students as well.

138 pages, Paperback

First published August 11, 2006

Reviews

[Mackenzie Marshall · Rating 4 out of 5]

Concise, well written primer on broad-scale issues of medical practice, public health, and so on. Scholarly with full references, covers historical causes to some extent.