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Medical Professionals: Conflicts and Quandaries in Medical Practice
offers a fresh approach to understanding the role-related conflicts
and quandaries that pervade contemporary medical practice. While a
focus on professional conflicts is not new in the literature, what
is missing is a volume that delves into medical professionals' own
experience of the conflicts and quandaries they face, often as a
result of inhabiting multiple roles. The volume explores the ways
in which these conflicts and quandaries are exacerbated by broader
societal forces, including changing scientific and technological
paradigms, commercialization, and strengthened consumer movements,
which simultaneously expand the scope of roles and responsibilities
that medical professionals are expected to fulfill, and make it
more difficult to do so. Several empirical chapters analyze data
from qualitative interview studies with clinicians and other
stakeholders. The studies highlight the burdens on clinicians who
are expected to make informed and justified judgments and decisions
in the midst of competing pressures; authors describe the methods
that clinicians use to address the associated tensions within
specific contexts. Two conceptual chapters follow and offer some
innovative ways to think about the challenges facing medical
professionals as they strive to make sense of the changing
landscape within healthcare. The first reflects on the challenges
to clinical practice in the midst of shifting and often competing
definitions of disease and associated ideologies of care. The
second reflects more broadly on the utility of value pluralism as a
framework for conceptualizing and working through moral and
professional quandaries. The book concludes with a chapter
containing suggestions for how members of the medical profession
might reframe their thinking about their roles, responsibilities,
and decision-making in the midst of inevitable quandaries such as
those presented here. This book will be of vital reading for
academics, researchers, educators, postgraduate students, and
interested health care practitioners and administrators.
Medical Professionals: Conflicts and Quandaries in Medical Practice
offers a fresh approach to understanding the role-related conflicts
and quandaries that pervade contemporary medical practice. While a
focus on professional conflicts is not new in the literature, what
is missing is a volume that delves into medical professionals' own
experience of the conflicts and quandaries they face, often as a
result of inhabiting multiple roles. The volume explores the ways
in which these conflicts and quandaries are exacerbated by broader
societal forces, including changing scientific and technological
paradigms, commercialization, and strengthened consumer movements,
which simultaneously expand the scope of roles and responsibilities
that medical professionals are expected to fulfill, and make it
more difficult to do so. Several empirical chapters analyze data
from qualitative interview studies with clinicians and other
stakeholders. The studies highlight the burdens on clinicians who
are expected to make informed and justified judgments and decisions
in the midst of competing pressures; authors describe the methods
that clinicians use to address the associated tensions within
specific contexts. Two conceptual chapters follow and offer some
innovative ways to think about the challenges facing medical
professionals as they strive to make sense of the changing
landscape within healthcare. The first reflects on the challenges
to clinical practice in the midst of shifting and often competing
definitions of disease and associated ideologies of care. The
second reflects more broadly on the utility of value pluralism as a
framework for conceptualizing and working through moral and
professional quandaries. The book concludes with a chapter
containing suggestions for how members of the medical profession
might reframe their thinking about their roles, responsibilities,
and decision-making in the midst of inevitable quandaries such as
those presented here. This book will be of vital reading for
academics, researchers, educators, postgraduate students, and
interested health care practitioners and administrators.
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