Books in the Practicing Bioethics series

A collection of personal narratives and essays, this work helps medical students and residents understand and internalize various aspects of professionalism. These essays are meant for personal reflection and for thoughtful discussion with mentors, peers, and others in the health care provider community who care about acting professionally.

Provides educators in medicine and the health sciences an introduction to professionalism. This collection of essays looks at what professionalism means, for the individual physician's relationship to his or her patients, the medical profession as a whole, and to society at large.

In the fast-paced world of clinical medicine, recognizing and acknowledging differences in worldviews is often overlooked. When dealing with the delicate issues broached in advance care planning, such oversights can lead to deep rifts within the health care provider-patient relationship. By providing guidance to those engaged in such endeavors and setting advance care planning in a global context, health care practitioners will be better able to care for their patients and achieve the noble goal of advance care planning_giving volume to the voice of the patient in the last chapter of her life.

Provides educators in medicine and the health sciences an introduction to professionalism. This collection of essays looks at what professionalism means, for the individual physician's relationship to his or her patients, the medical profession as a whole, and to society at large.

Death in the Clinic fills a gap in contemporary medical education by explicitly addressing the concrete clinical realities about death with which practitioners, patients, and their families continue to wrestle. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Death in the Clinic fills a gap in contemporary medical education by explicitly addressing the concrete clinical realities about death with which practitioners, patients, and their families continue to wrestle. Visit our website for sample chapters!