Larry R. Churchill

David Schenck

Joseph B. Fanning

Healthcare ethics has been dominated by the voices of professionals. This book listens to the voices of patients and argues that patients' perceptions should form the core ethical obligations and insights for "good care." This is the ethical meaning of "patient-centered care."

The Everyday Ethics of Health Care

What Patients Teach

Nancy M. P. King

Rebecca L. Walker

Jonathan Oberlander

Mara Buchbinder

Sue E. Estroff

Barry F. Saunders

Ronald P. Strauss

The extensively updated and revised third edition of the bestselling Social Medicine Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today's health care providers, patients, and caregivers by bringing together moving narratives of illness, commentaries by physicians, debates about complex medical cases, and conceptually and empirically based writings by scholars in medicine, the social sciences, and the humanities. Volume 1, Ethics and Cultures of Biomedicine, contains essays, case studies, narratives, fiction, and poems that focus on the experiences of illness and of clinician-patient relationships. Among other topics the contributors examine the roles and training of professionals alongside the broader cultures of biomedicine; health care; experiences and decisions regarding death, dying, and struggling to live; and particular manifestations of injustice in the broader health system. The Reader is essential reading for all medical students, physicians, and health care providers.

Ethics and Cultures of Biomedicine

The Social Medicine Reader, Volume I, Third Edition

Larry R. Churchill

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