This text examines the dominant ways of looking at patient/clinician
relationships in healthcare. By challenging these dominant views the
author can explore presuppositions that are defective. She further
explains how they come to be so readily and uncritically held and
reinforced; and, why their implications can have such a profound affect
on how we think and act.
Using the methodology of philosopher, John Dewey, the author proposes an
alternative bio/psycho/social approach to understanding the
patient/clinician relationship and for resolving increasingly common
bioethical issues that arise in healthcare settings.