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2/9/2007
Kayhan Parsi has recently co-edited a new book titled Healing as Vocation: A Medical Professionalism Primer which was published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Kayhan graduated from IMH with a Ph.D. in medical humanities in 1998. His advisor was Dr. Winslade and the title of his dissertation was Metaphorical Imagination: The Legal and Moral Status of Embryos and Fetuses in Four Common Law Countries. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy of the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. He is also the graduate program director of the online master's program in bioethics at the Neiswanger Institute.

Another of our graduates, Jing Bao Nie, wrote a chapter for the book titled “After Cheng (Sincerity): The Professional Ethics of Traditional Chinese Medicine.” He graduated from IMH with a Ph.D. in medical humanities in 1999. Jing Bao's advisor was Dr. Vanderpool and the title of his dissertation was Voices behind the Silence: Chinese Moral Beliefs and Experiences of Abortion in Cultural Context. He is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Bioethics Centre, University of Otago, New Zealand, Adjunct Professor, Institute of Ethics, Hunan Normal University, CHINA, and Faculty Associate, Center for the History of Medicine, Medical School, Beijing University, CHINA. You can read further details about the book at the publisher's website http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=%5EDB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0742534073&thepassedurl=%5Bthepassedurl%5D

"This collection of essays provides educators in medicine and the health sciences an illuminating and challenging introduction to professionalism. The book takes a practical approach toward this topic, looking at what professionalism means, for the individual physician's relationship to his or her patients, to the medical profession as a whole, and to society at large."

Our congratulations to both Dr. Parsi and Dr. Nie.

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