Theological Analyses of the Clinical Encounter - Theology and Medicine Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994 edition

Marc Notes: Efforts to evaluate the clinical encounter in terms of autonomous agents governed by rationally justified moral principles continue to be criticised. These essays examine various models of the clinical encounter emerging out of these criticisms and explore the prospects they offer for theological and religious discourse. Table of Contents: Introduction. 1. Theology, Ethics, and the Clinical Encounter; G. P. McKenny. Section One: The Medical Covenant Past, Present, and Future. 2. Interpreting the Physician-Patient Relationship: Uses and Abuses of the Covenant Model; R. Hamel. 3. The Medical Covenant: an Ethics of Obligation or Virtue; W. F. May. 4. Trust in the Clinical Encounter: Implications for a Covenant Model; E. R. DuBose. Section Two: Principles in Revision. 5. Autonomy and Trust in the Clinical Encounter: Reflections from a Theological Perspective; D. Thomasma, E. Pellegrino. 6. Exousia: Healing with Authority in the Christian Tradition; D. P. Sulmasy. 7. Conflicting Loyalties: Beneficence--Love within Limits; J. Glaser. 8. Empowerment in the Clinical Encounter; K. Lebacqz. Section Three: Beyond Principles. 9. Listening to the Different Voices: Toward a Poetic Bioethics; P. Lauritzen. 10. Reason, Narrative, and Rhetoric: a Theoretical Collage for the Clinical Encounter; S. Churchill, L. Churchill. 11. Illness and the Other; R. M. Zaner. 12. Cultural Diversity and the Clinical Encounter: Intercultural Dialogue in Multi-Ethnic Patient Care; E. Heitman. Conclusion. 13. Theology and the Clinical Encounter: Reflections from a Clinician; J. R. Sande. Index.