Larry Churchill is Professor of Medical Ethics, center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University Medical CenterDavid Schenk: Research Fellow, Center for Clinical and Research Ethics, Vanderbilt University

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Healing in Health Care: Eight Things the Best Clinicians Do2. Medical Rituals: Organizing the Healing Elements3. How Healing Happens: Reports from the Field4. Healing Traditions: The Role of Religion and Spirituality5. Patient Perspectives: Healing from the Other Side of the Bed Rail6. The Biology of Healing: Neuroscience and the Education of Healers (with Eve Henry, MD)7. Healing Thyself: Clinicians Talk about Their Own Healing Practices8. Ethics and Medicine: Healing the Wounds of FateNotes

"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." -- CHOICE"The essential opinions about patients expressed by the physicians in Healers are ineluctably subjective; they are not measurable and cannot be made objective. To comprehend that is to realize also how imperative thoughtful subjectivity is not only to clinical medicine and bioethics but also to how persons live their lives generally. Understand that, and you will begin to be free of scientism outside of its rightful domain. I believe you will come away from these books with an increased appreciation of healing and a wider and more human view of ethics." -- Hastings Center Report

Larry Churchill is Professor of Medical Ethics, center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University Medical CenterDavid Schenk: Research Fellow, Center for Clinical and Research Ethics, Vanderbilt University

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Healing in Health Care: Eight Things the Best Clinicians Do2. Medical Rituals: Organizing the Healing Elements3. How Healing Happens: Reports from the Field4. Healing Traditions: The Role of Religion and Spirituality5. Patient Perspectives: Healing from the Other Side of the Bed Rail6. The Biology of Healing: Neuroscience and the Education of Healers (with Eve Henry, MD)7. Healing Thyself: Clinicians Talk about Their Own Healing Practices8. Ethics and Medicine: Healing the Wounds of FateNotes

"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." -- CHOICE"The essential opinions about patients expressed by the physicians in Healers are ineluctably subjective; they are not measurable and cannot be made objective. To comprehend that is to realize also how imperative thoughtful subjectivity is not only to clinical medicine and bioethics but also to how persons live their lives generally. Understand that, and you will begin to be free of scientism outside of its rightful domain. I believe you will come away from these books with an increased appreciation of healing and a wider and more human view of ethics." -- Hastings Center Report

Larry Churchill is Professor of Medical Ethics, center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University Medical CenterDavid Schenk: Research Fellow, Center for Clinical and Research Ethics, Vanderbilt University

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Healing in Health Care: Eight Things the Best Clinicians Do2. Medical Rituals: Organizing the Healing Elements3. How Healing Happens: Reports from the Field4. Healing Traditions: The Role of Religion and Spirituality5. Patient Perspectives: Healing from the Other Side of the Bed Rail6. The Biology of Healing: Neuroscience and the Education of Healers (with Eve Henry, MD)7. Healing Thyself: Clinicians Talk about Their Own Healing Practices8. Ethics and Medicine: Healing the Wounds of FateNotes

"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." -- CHOICE"The essential opinions about patients expressed by the physicians in Healers are ineluctably subjective; they are not measurable and cannot be made objective. To comprehend that is to realize also how imperative thoughtful subjectivity is not only to clinical medicine and bioethics but also to how persons live their lives generally. Understand that, and you will begin to be free of scientism outside of its rightful domain. I believe you will come away from these books with an increased appreciation of healing and a wider and more human view of ethics." -- Hastings Center Report