Unique Encounters of the Medical Kind

Abstract

medicine. The anthology is unusual as it presents an analytic review of the components of the patientphysician relation with interdisciplinary reflection on what is needed make that relationship a productive and successful one. Stoeckle's premise is that medicine's task is patient and that work, nothing is more important than the doctorpatient relation. This premise is reflected in the purposes of the anthology, which are address new goals and old values of patient care in an attempt renew practice, education, and the everyday contracts of doctors and patients, and to stimulate and sustain interest in the