Hospitality to Strangers: Empathy and the Physician-Patient Relationship
Elmore, Link, Interpretation
Hospitality to Strangers: Empathy and the Physician-Patient Relationship
by Dorothy M. Owens
AAR Academy Series no. 100. Scholars Press, Atlanta, 1999. 163 pp. $24.95. ISBN 04885-060M.
THIS WORK is a thoughtful and philosophically grounded curriculum for teaching empathy to medical students. In a time when medical treatment and education are increasingly entangled in technical minutiae, Owens attempts to redirect the light of medicine from the glare of stainless steel to that which illumines the "sacred space" between doctor and patient.
Her attempt is not simply to draw from, but rather to seek integration of the domains of theology, psychology, and …
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Publication information:
Article title: Hospitality to Strangers: Empathy and the Physician-Patient Relationship.
Contributors: Elmore, Link - Author.
Journal title: Interpretation.
Volume: 55.
Issue: 2
Publication date: April 2001.
Page number: 222+.
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