What Patients Teach
The Everyday Ethics of Health Care
- Publisher's listprice GBP 33.99
-
15 346 Ft (14 615 Ft + 5% VAT)
The price is estimated because at the time of ordering we do not know what conversion rates will apply to HUF / product currency when the book arrives. In case HUF is weaker, the price increases slightly, in case HUF is stronger, the price goes lower slightly.
- Discount 10% (cc. 1 535 Ft off)
- Discounted price 13 811 Ft (13 154 Ft + 5% VAT)
Subcribe now and take benefit of a favourable price.
Subscribe
15 346 Ft
Availability
printed on demand
Why don't you give exact delivery time?
Delivery time is estimated on our previous experiences. We give estimations only, because we order from outside Hungary, and the delivery time mainly depends on how quickly the publisher supplies the book. Faster or slower deliveries both happen, but we do our best to supply as quickly as possible.
Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 8 December 2016
- ISBN 9780190650582
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 208x137x15 mm
- Weight 272 g
- Language English 0
Categories
Short description:
Healthcare ethics has been dominated by the voices of professionals. This book listens to the voices of patients and argues that patients' perceptions should form the core ethical obligations and insights for "good care." This is the ethical meaning of "patient-centered care."
MoreLong description:
Being a patient is a unique interpersonal experience but it is also a universal human experience. The relationships formed when we are patients can also teach some of life's most important lessons, and these relationships provide a special window into ethics, especially the ethics of healthcare professionals. This book answers two basic questions: As patients see it, what things allow relationships with healthcare providers to become therapeutic? What can this teach us about healthcare ethics? This volume presents detailed descriptions and analyses of 50 interviews with 58 patients, representing a wide spectrum of illnesses and clinician specialties. The authors argue that the structure, rhythm, and horizon of routine patient care are ultimately grounded in patient vulnerability and clinician responsiveness. From the short interview segments, the longer vignettes and the full patient stories presented here emerge the neglected dimensions of healthcare and healthcare ethics. What becomes visible is an ethics of everyday interdependence, with mutual responsibilities that follow from this moral symbiosis. Both professional expressions of healthcare ethics and the field of bioethics need to be informed and reformed by this distinctive, more patient-centered, turn in how we understand both patient care as a whole and the ethics of care more specifically. The final chapters present revised codes of ethics for health professionals, as well as the implications for medical and health professions education.
This an outstanding contribution to the ethics literature
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. Being a Patient and Living a Life
2. Clinical Space and Traits of Healing
3. False Starts and Frequent Failures
4. Three Journeys
A. "Ibuprofen and Love"
B. "Staying Tuned Up"
C. "We All Want the Same Things"
5. Being a Patient: The Moral Field
6. Rethinking Healthcare Ethics: The Patient's Moral Authority
Appendix
Notes
