ABSTRACT
This chapter examines a model of healthcare ethics that is sensitively human and cobbles together an ethics of care, virtue ethics, and the idea of a covenant. Covenant, virtues, and human relationships are powerfully intertwined in an approach to bioethics that Alastair V. Campbell developed throughout his academic life. The virtues fostered by a covenant both supplement the several principles and highlight their deficiencies by introducing further aspects of the clinical partnership, some of which allow the warmth and humanness of healthcare and the life of healthcare professionals to be acknowledged. A more natural science highlights the humanity of virtue, and the purposes informing a sense of life that acknowledges mortality and its contrast with eternity such that the passing of the seasons also conveys a sense of the uniqueness of every moment of every human life. The virtues are discerned by an educated intellectual eye for what all humankind share as creatures who indwell stories of worth.
