Healers: Extraordinary Clinicians at Work

In this groundbreaking volume, David Schenck and Larry Churchill present the results of fifty interviews with practitioners identified by their peers as healers, exploring in depth the things that the best clinicians do. They focus on specific actions that exceptional healers perform to
improve their relationships with their patients and, subsequently, improve their patients' overall health. The authors analyze the ritual structure and spiritual meaning of these healing skills, as well as their scientific basis, and offer a new, more holistic interpretation of the placebo effect.
Recognizing that the best healers are also people who know how to care for themselves, the authors describe activities that these clinicians have chosen to promote wellness, wholeness and healing in their own lives. The final chapter explores the deep connections between the mastery of healing
skills and the mastery of what the authors call the skills of ethics. They argue that ethics should be considered a healing art, alongside the art of medicine.


Author: David Schenck, Larry Churchill
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 11/01/2016
Pages: 292
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780190650599

About the Author

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.

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