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Person-centred Health Care - Balancing the Welfare of Clinicians and Patients (Paperback)
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Person-centred Health Care - Balancing the Welfare of Clinicians and Patients (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities
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Person-centred health care is increasingly endorsed as a key
element of high-quality care, yet, in practice, it often means
patient-centred health care. This book scrutinizes the principle of
primacy of patient welfare, which, although deeply embedded in
health professionalism, is long overdue for critical analysis and
debate. It appears incontestable because patients have greater
immediate health needs than clinicians and the patient-clinician
encounter is often recognized as a moral enterprise as well as a
service contract. However, Buetow argues that the implication that
clinician welfare is secondary can harm clinicians, patients and
health system performance. Revaluing participants in health care as
moral equals, this book advocates an ethic of virtue to respect the
clinician as a whole person whose self-care and care from patients
can benefit both parties, because their moral interests intertwine
and warrant equal consideration. It then considers how to move from
values including moral equality in health care to practice for
people in their particular situations. Developing a genuinely
inclusive concept of person-centred care - accepting clinicians as
moral equals - it also facilitates the coalescence of
patient-centred care and evidence-based health care. This
reflective and provocative work develops a constructive alternative
to the taken-for-granted principle of primacy of patient welfare.
It is of interest to students and academics in the health and
caring sciences, philosophy, ethics, medical humanities and health
management.
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