Overview: Efforts to evaluate the clinical encounter in terms ofautonomous agents governed by rationally justified moral principlescontinue to be criticised. These essays, written by physicians,ethicists, theologians and philosophers, examine various models of theclinical encounter emerging out of these criticisms and explore theprospects they offer for theological and religious discourse.Individual essays focus on the reformulation of covenant models;revisions of principles approaches; and topics such as power,authority, narrative, rhetoric, dialogue, and alterity. The essaysdisplay a range o
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