Ethics and Professionalism in Healthcare

This book addresses historical, conceptual and empirical aspects of professionalism and inter-professionalism in health care from an international and interdisciplinary perspective. The collection is divided into five sections: historical and societal aspects of health care professions; learning and teaching medical professionalism; transformation of health care professions; professional leadership and team decision-making in health care; and ethical challenges to health care professionalism. The study concludes by integrating the main ideas and perspectives in a position chapter, and highlights how the work in the diverse disciplines is interrelated.