Abstract:
:Although the practice of medicine continually changes in response to new biomedical understanding, novel technologies, and evolving cultural contexts, the ethical foundations of the clinical relationship between patient and physician paradoxically remain constant. There are fundamental characteristics with respect to character, behavior, and responsibilities that are descriptive of and necessary to the role of healer and that underpin the notion of physicianship. This article discusses the underlying characteristics or virtues that are necessary to the practice of medicine from the perspectives of three different philosophic traditions: the Aristotelian idea of phronesis as developed in the work of Edmund Pellegrino; the notion of alterity as framed by Emmanuel Levinas; and the attributes necessary to healing as laid out in the kabbala.
journal_name
Perspect Biol Medjournal_title
Perspectives in biology and medicineauthors
Fuks A,Brawer J,Boudreau JDdoi
10.1353/pbm.2012.0002subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2012-01-01 00:00:00pages
114-26issue
1eissn
0031-5982issn
1529-8795pii
S1529879512100077journal_volume
55pub_type
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