Making a Good Doctor: Sources of Strength and Wisdom
Editat de Edvin Schei, Iona Heath, Peter Dorward, Caroline Engenen Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 dec 2025
What does it mean to be a good doctor? How do we learn to respond well to suffering—both our patients’ and our own—and to sustain ourselves in systems that so often undermine those very values we must hold on to?
In this anthology a group of physicians from five countries—ranging from newly qualified doctors to internationally recognized scholars—come together to reflect on the tensions and promises of current medical education and practice. Making a Good Doctor is a weave of academic inquiry, personal narrative, literary reflection, and pedagogical dialogue.
Across eighteen chapters, the book explores the emergence of medicalization, over-diagnosis, alienation, burnout, moral injury, and the commodification of care. It celebrates the joy of medicine, its power to heal— the transformative force of listening, of dialogue, of shared presence.
Key Features
- Offers a uniquely holistic combination of personal stories and critical perspectives on current medical education and practice
- Builds around a person-centred ideal that sets the humanity of both patients and professionals at the centre of medical education and practice
- Expresses ideas and ideals that have been tested in educational practice and have solid theoretical underpinnings in medical philosophy and psychological and pedagogical research
A PDF version of this book is available for free in Open Access at www.taylorfrancis.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 International license.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781032973333
ISBN-10: 1032973331
Pagini: 268
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: CRC Press
Colecția CRC Press
ISBN-10: 1032973331
Pagini: 268
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: CRC Press
Colecția CRC Press
Public țintă
Academic, Professional Practice & Development, and Professional TrainingCuprins
1. Beginning 2. I Dread This 3. Framing the Problem: Suffering and Knowing in the World of Things
4. When Death Comes to Work 5. Medicine: We Make It; It Makes Us 6. Levels of Experience 7. Steps Toward Deep Listening 8. Your Everyday, My Once in a Lifetime 9. Dialogue and Healing 10. Attending to the Unsaid: On Knowing, Care, and Strength 11. I’ll Take it With me When I Go 12. Alienation, Resonance and the Formation of Physicians 13. Second Thoughts – Reflections on Early Medical Career Experiences 14. Wisdom in Medical Practice 15. Why I Run 16. Dualisms, Bread and Roses, and Finding Joy 17. The Planning of Magic 18. End
4. When Death Comes to Work 5. Medicine: We Make It; It Makes Us 6. Levels of Experience 7. Steps Toward Deep Listening 8. Your Everyday, My Once in a Lifetime 9. Dialogue and Healing 10. Attending to the Unsaid: On Knowing, Care, and Strength 11. I’ll Take it With me When I Go 12. Alienation, Resonance and the Formation of Physicians 13. Second Thoughts – Reflections on Early Medical Career Experiences 14. Wisdom in Medical Practice 15. Why I Run 16. Dualisms, Bread and Roses, and Finding Joy 17. The Planning of Magic 18. End
Notă biografică
Edvin Schei
I was, long ago, a critical medical student who hoped in vain that medicine would teach me about people and make me wiser. Slowly, learning from my patients, I found my way as a family doctor, a teacher of medical students, a researcher in medical education, and an advocate of human connection in medicine. I have been a visiting scholar at Boston University, McGill University in Montreal, and Maastricht University. I have learned that medicine, and patients, profit from philosophy, friendliness, humour and honesty.
Iona Heath
I worked as a general practitioner in a deprived inner-city area of London for almost 35 years. It was an amazing place to work and I learnt almost everything I know from the courage and endurance of my patients and from colleagues from across the world but perhaps especially from Scandinavia. I discovered that the work of general practice has such an astonishing breath that reading almost any book, fiction or non-fiction, has something to teach us about the human condition that is relevant to our work. Reading taught me to write and writing has helped me to think.
Peter Dorward
I am a family physician, and medical teacher, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. I have a long interest in the intersections of medicine, philosophy and literature, and talk and write extensively on this subject. I am the author of ‘The Human Kind, A Doctor’s Stories from the Heart of Medicine” (Bloomsbury 2018)
Caroline Engen
I trained as a cancer researcher before turning to psychiatry and a scholarly path in the philosophy of medicine. This path continues to shape both my clinical work and academic inquiry, and has taught me to see suffering not only as something to be known and treated, but as something that reveals. My work largely focuses on epistemological and ethical dimensions of contemporary medicine.
I was, long ago, a critical medical student who hoped in vain that medicine would teach me about people and make me wiser. Slowly, learning from my patients, I found my way as a family doctor, a teacher of medical students, a researcher in medical education, and an advocate of human connection in medicine. I have been a visiting scholar at Boston University, McGill University in Montreal, and Maastricht University. I have learned that medicine, and patients, profit from philosophy, friendliness, humour and honesty.
Iona Heath
I worked as a general practitioner in a deprived inner-city area of London for almost 35 years. It was an amazing place to work and I learnt almost everything I know from the courage and endurance of my patients and from colleagues from across the world but perhaps especially from Scandinavia. I discovered that the work of general practice has such an astonishing breath that reading almost any book, fiction or non-fiction, has something to teach us about the human condition that is relevant to our work. Reading taught me to write and writing has helped me to think.
Peter Dorward
I am a family physician, and medical teacher, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. I have a long interest in the intersections of medicine, philosophy and literature, and talk and write extensively on this subject. I am the author of ‘The Human Kind, A Doctor’s Stories from the Heart of Medicine” (Bloomsbury 2018)
Caroline Engen
I trained as a cancer researcher before turning to psychiatry and a scholarly path in the philosophy of medicine. This path continues to shape both my clinical work and academic inquiry, and has taught me to see suffering not only as something to be known and treated, but as something that reveals. My work largely focuses on epistemological and ethical dimensions of contemporary medicine.
Descriere
We can all find ourselves lost from time to time— whether we are near the beginning, the middle, or the ends of our professional lives. Doctors are no exception. ‘Making a Good Doctor’ addresses core questions which lie at the heart of what is to be a doctor. What is our work for? How do we learn to be good at it?