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Edited by David Thomas Stern. 311 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 2006. $49.50. ISBN 0-19-517226-4.

This book on the multifaceted problem of measuring medical professionalism is interesting and valuable. It has something for any reader seeking to understand whether, why, or how professionalism in medicine might be evaluated.

The editor, David Thomas Stern, asks whether the concept of "professionalism" is like the concept of "obscenity" — something hard to define but recognizable when observed. Stern, along with Louise Arnold, rejects this glib definition in a very thoughtful essay the two contributed to this book identifying the central qualities of professionalism as excellence, humanism, accountability, and altruism. Predictably, the many other contributors to the book perceive . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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