Pilgrims In Medicine: Conscience, Legalism And Human Rights: An Allegory of Medical Humanities, Foundational Virtues, Ethical Principles, Law and Human Rights in Medical Personal and Professional Development by Thomas Alured Faunce (Martinus Nijhoff: Brill Academic Publishers) Unabashedly literary, allusive and dialogic, Faunce has created a synthetic account of the humane issues involved in the doctor-patient relationship. The work challenges clinicians to approach whole to whole in the dance or as Fanunce fancies it, pilgrimage, that practice of medicine can become even in our highly technocratic institutions of medicine. Part spiritual direction, legal treatise, bioethics premier, and, with always an eye for the formation of personhood of the physician, this work deserves a wide professional readership.
