Historical models of health care provided by allied health clinicians give guidance for health care service into the next century. The fates of physicians and clinicians are intertwined and both professions face major changes. (SK)

The narrow perspective on illness that specialization can produce can be forestalled through efforts to broaden understanding of illness by delineating ethical dimensions of relationships to patients, creating a view of the place of the professional in the historical evolution of medicine, and examining how technology influences medicine and…

Outlines bases for cooperation between religious studies and the education and practice of allied health professionals. Identifies themes in which religious perspectives encourage scrutiny of values and assumptions that shape health care: definitions of health and sickness; relation of health to other values; attitudes toward the aged, incurable,…