Theological Analyses of the Clinical Encounter

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.