David Schenck is Research Assistant Professor at the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Larry Churchill is Ann Geddes Stahlman Professor of Medical Ethics at the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Healing in Health Care: Eight Things the Best Clinicians DoChapter 2. Medical Rituals: Organizing the Healing ElementsChapter 3. How Healing Happens: Reports from the FieldChapter 4. Healing Traditions: The Role of Religion and SpiritualityChapter 5. Patient Perspectives: Healing from the Other Side of the Bed RailChapter 6. The Biology of Healing: Neuroscience and the Education of Healers (with Eve Henry, MD)Chapter 7. Healing Thyself: Clinicians Talk about Their Own Healing PracticesChapter 8. Ethics and Medicine: Healing the Wounds of Fate Notes

The book powerfully shows how physicians' spiritual and physical dispositions contribute a great deal to the care they provide, showing the inseparability of personhood and excellence. Practitioners will find this a useful refresher about the things that really matter. Medical students and undergraduates who hope to be physicians will learn what they must do to become excellent practitioners... Recommended.

David Schenck is Research Assistant Professor at the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Larry Churchill is Ann Geddes Stahlman Professor of Medical Ethics at the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Healing in Health Care: Eight Things the Best Clinicians DoChapter 2. Medical Rituals: Organizing the Healing ElementsChapter 3. How Healing Happens: Reports from the FieldChapter 4. Healing Traditions: The Role of Religion and SpiritualityChapter 5. Patient Perspectives: Healing from the Other Side of the Bed RailChapter 6. The Biology of Healing: Neuroscience and the Education of Healers (with Eve Henry, MD)Chapter 7. Healing Thyself: Clinicians Talk about Their Own Healing PracticesChapter 8. Ethics and Medicine: Healing the Wounds of Fate Notes

The book powerfully shows how physicians' spiritual and physical dispositions contribute a great deal to the care they provide, showing the inseparability of personhood and excellence. Practitioners will find this a useful refresher about the things that really matter. Medical students and undergraduates who hope to be physicians will learn what they must do to become excellent practitioners... Recommended.

David Schenck is Research Assistant Professor at the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Larry Churchill is Ann Geddes Stahlman Professor of Medical Ethics at the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Healing in Health Care: Eight Things the Best Clinicians DoChapter 2. Medical Rituals: Organizing the Healing ElementsChapter 3. How Healing Happens: Reports from the FieldChapter 4. Healing Traditions: The Role of Religion and SpiritualityChapter 5. Patient Perspectives: Healing from the Other Side of the Bed RailChapter 6. The Biology of Healing: Neuroscience and the Education of Healers (with Eve Henry, MD)Chapter 7. Healing Thyself: Clinicians Talk about Their Own Healing PracticesChapter 8. Ethics and Medicine: Healing the Wounds of Fate Notes

The book powerfully shows how physicians' spiritual and physical dispositions contribute a great deal to the care they provide, showing the inseparability of personhood and excellence. Practitioners will find this a useful refresher about the things that really matter. Medical students and undergraduates who hope to be physicians will learn what they must do to become excellent practitioners... Recommended.