Healing as Vocation

Kayhan P. Parsi, JD, PhD is assistant professor at the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy of the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. He is also the graduate program director of the online master's program in bioethics at the Neiswanger Institute. Myles Sheehan, SJ, MD is Senior Associate Dean of the Education Program and Professor of Medicine at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. He is also a Jesuit and a priest.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Chapter 1. Practicing ProfessionalismChapter 3 Chapter 2. Professionalism and the Social ContractChapter 4 Chapter 3. The Birth of Medical Professionalism: Professionalism and the Role of Professional AssociationsChapter 5 Chapter 4. Professionalism and Commercialism as Antitheticals: A Search for "Unprofessional Commercialism" Within the Writings and Work of American MedicineChapter 6 Chapter 5. After Cheng (Sincerity): The Professional Ethics of Traditional Chinese MedicineChapter 7 Chapter 6. Can Justice Be Taught? Valuing Justice and Professionalism in the Medical School CurriculumChapter 8 Chapter 7. Initiating and Evaluating a Program in Ethics and Professionalism for Medical StudentsChapter 9 Chapter 8. Two Faces of Professionalism

Consumer-driven health care is here to stay and will evolve as the American answer to meet the needs of the uninsured and the wealthy. How should the health care profession relate to the society it serves when that society treats it as just one more lucrative service industry? This volume helps to answer that question. New and seasoned professionals alike can ground themselves in the principles that underlie the vocation of healing. The contributors to this volume are to be commended in providing the anchors to professionalism. It is a gift to society of great worth.