Personhood And Health Care

Author : David C. Thomasma,David N. Weisstub,Christian Hervé
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401725729

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PERSONHOOD AND HEALTH CARE This book arose as a result of a pre-conference devoted to the topic held June 28, 1999 in Paris, France. The pre-conference preceded the Annual Congress of the International Academy ofLaw and Mental Health. Other chapters were solicited after the conference in order to more completely explore the relation of personhood to health care. The pre conference was held in honor of Yves Pelicier who led so many of our French colleagues in medicine, philosophy, and ethics as Christian Herve notes in his Tribute. As health care is aimed at healing persons, it is important to realize how difficult it is to construct a theory of personhood for health care, and thus, a theory of how healing in health care comes about or ought to occur. The book is divided into four parts, Concepts of the Person, Theories of Personhood in Relation to Health Care and Bioethics, Person and Identity, and Personhood and Hs Relations. Each section explores a critical arena in constructing the relation of personhood to health care. Although no exploration ofthis nature can be exhaustive, every effort was made to present both conflicting and complementary views of personhood from within similar and different philosophical and religious traditions. PART ONE: CONCEPTS OF THE PERSON Tracing the origins of the concept of person from antiquity through present day, Jean Delemeau provides an historical sketch of the development of a wide range of meanings.

Author : David C. Thomasma,David N. Weisstub,Christian Hervé
Publisher : Springer
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 940172573X

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Personhood and Health Care by David C. Thomasma,David N. Weisstub,Christian Hervé Pdf

PERSONHOOD AND HEALTH CARE This book arose as a result of a pre-conference devoted to the topic held June 28, 1999 in Paris, France. The pre-conference preceded the Annual Congress of the International Academy ofLaw and Mental Health. Other chapters were solicited after the conference in order to more completely explore the relation of personhood to health care. The pre conference was held in honor of Yves Pelicier who led so many of our French colleagues in medicine, philosophy, and ethics as Christian Herve notes in his Tribute. As health care is aimed at healing persons, it is important to realize how difficult it is to construct a theory of personhood for health care, and thus, a theory of how healing in health care comes about or ought to occur. The book is divided into four parts, Concepts of the Person, Theories of Personhood in Relation to Health Care and Bioethics, Person and Identity, and Personhood and Hs Relations. Each section explores a critical arena in constructing the relation of personhood to health care. Although no exploration ofthis nature can be exhaustive, every effort was made to present both conflicting and complementary views of personhood from within similar and different philosophical and religious traditions. PART ONE: CONCEPTS OF THE PERSON Tracing the origins of the concept of person from antiquity through present day, Jean Delemeau provides an historical sketch of the development of a wide range of meanings.

Author : Sarah Bishop Merrill
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004494008

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Defining Personhood by Sarah Bishop Merrill Pdf

Many debates in biomedical ethics today involve inconsistencies in defining the key term, person. Both sides of the abortion debate, for instance, beg the question about what constitutes personhood. This book explores the arguments concerning definitions of personhood in the history of modern philosophy, and then constructs a superior model, defined in terms of distinctive features (a theoretical concept borrowed from linguistics). This model is shown to have distinct advantages over the necessary and sufficient condition models of personhood launched by essentialists. Philosophers historically have been correct about what some of the pivotal distinctive features of personhood are, e.q., rationality, communications and self-consciousness, but they have been wrong about the methods of recognizing and asserting personhood, and about the relative importance of feelings. In clinical care, complaints often surface that care is not personal. This book aims to improve care through providing a method of attending to patients as people. Charts in the Appendices show that where physicians attended to personal features important to their patients, sometimes the patients rated the care even higher than the physician did. The book will be useful to health-care providers whose goals include improving quality of care, listening to patients, and preventing malpractice.

Author : Erich E.H. Loewy
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780306468278

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Integrity and Personhood by Erich E.H. Loewy Pdf

This text examines the dominant ways of looking at patient/clinician relationships in healthcare. By challenging these dominant views the author can explore presuppositions that are defective. She further explains how they come to be so readily and uncritically held and reinforced; and, why their implications can have such a profound affect on how we think and act. Using the methodology of philosopher, John Dewey, the author proposes an alternative bio/psycho/social approach to understanding the patient/clinician relationship and for resolving increasingly common bioethical issues that arise in healthcare settings.

Author : John Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781134954216

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The Value of Life by John Harris Pdf

First published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Higgs, Paul,Gilleard, Chris
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-05
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781447319054

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Personhood, Identity and Care in Advanced Old Age by Higgs, Paul,Gilleard, Chris Pdf

As humans live longer, the elderly population increases, and the challenges we face in addressing their needs continue to evolve. This book explores the theoretical and practical issues raised by advanced aging in the contemporary world. Developing new sociological theory, Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard suggest that mental and physical frailty forms a central theme in narratives about deep old age and that discussions of personhood are needed to address this concept. After examining key terms like personhood, the fourth age, frailty, and abjection, Higgs and Gilleard consider the broader implications of these concepts for issues of care--both its meanings and its management. As the care needs of the elderly and options for meeting these needs grow more complex, it is important to examine our collective hopes and fears concerning the end of life, including questions about personhood and expectations for the quality and content of end-of-life care.

Author : Richard Edmund Ashcroft,Angus Dawson,Heather Draper,John McMillan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781119184829

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Principles of Health Care Ethics by Richard Edmund Ashcroft,Angus Dawson,Heather Draper,John McMillan Pdf

Edited by four leading members of the new generation of medical andhealthcare ethicists working in the UK, respected worldwide fortheir work in medical ethics, Principles of Health CareEthics, Second Edition is a standard resource forstudents, professionals, and academics wishing to understandcurrent and future issues in healthcare ethics. With a distinguished international panel of contributors workingat the leading edge of academia, this volume presents acomprehensive guide to the field, with state of the artintroductions to the wide range of topics in modern healthcareethics, from consent to human rights, from utilitarianism tofeminism, from the doctor-patient relationship toxenotransplantation. This volume is the Second Edition of the highly successful workedited by Professor Raanan Gillon, Emeritus Professor of MedicalEthics at Imperial College London and former editor of the Journalof Medical Ethics, the leading journal in this field. Developments from the First Edition include: Thefocus on ‘Four Principles Method’ is relaxed to covermore different methods in health care ethics. More material on newmedical technologies is included, the coverage of issues on thedoctor/patient relationship is expanded, and material on ethics andpublic health is brought together into a new section.

Author : Paulina Taboada,K.F. Cuddeback,P. Donohue-White
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002-05-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1402005032

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Person, Society and Value by Paulina Taboada,K.F. Cuddeback,P. Donohue-White Pdf

From a symposium marking the halfway point in their two-year research, scholars of philosophy and medicine from the US, Europe, and Chile explore how the World Health Organization's definition of health can be both personalist and operational. The 11 papers cover health in relation to the human person, human well-being, and society. The general conclusion is that answering philosophical questions regarding such matters as the essence and value of human health is crucial for solving political problems such as how to legislate health care policy. The International Academy of Philosophy undertook the project with funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Royal College of Physicians of London
Publisher : Royal College of Physicians
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Persistent vegetative state
ISBN : 9781860161865

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The Vegetative State by Royal College of Physicians of London Pdf

Author : Ewan Kelly
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567247575

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Personhood and Presence by Ewan Kelly Pdf

The greatest asset which people in pastoral care offer in a caring relationship is themselves, or to be more precise, the aspects of self which they have reflected upon. Offering oneself to other people in order to provide companionship along the road of life, especially when the particular stage on the journey is one of anticipated or actual loss, is an act which is both challenging and yet potentially life enhancing for a carer. The purpose of this book is to offer an aid to those who seek to understand themselves better with a view to enhancing the quality of spiritual and pastoral care they offer. Here the reference point for reflexivity is the caring relationship. Yet as we are fundamentally the same beings in personal and professional relationships, readers may also find stimulus to reflect on what they bring to a variety of relationships including that with the Sacred and, indeed, themselves.

Author : Kent Maynard
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1845450388

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Medical Identities by Kent Maynard Pdf

Illness and misfortune more broadly are ubiquitous; thus, healing roles or professions are also universal. Ironically, however, little attention has been paid to those who heal or promote wellbeing. These come in many different guises: in some societies, healing is highly professional and specialized; in some cases, it is more preventative, in others more interventionist. Based on rich and wide-ranging ethnographic data and especially written for this volume, these essays look at how a great variety of health providers are perceived - from traditional healers to physicians, from diviners to nursing home providers. Conversely, the authors also ask how healers, or those concerned with wider matters of well being, view themselves and to what degree social attitudes differ in regard to who these people are, as well as their power, prestige and activities. As these essays demonstrate, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, or state policy may all play formative roles in shaping the definition of health and wellbeing, how they are delivered, and the character and prestige of those who provide for our health and welfare in society.

Author : Deborah O'Connor,Barbara Purves
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-15
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1846429404

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Decision-Making, Personhood and Dementia by Deborah O'Connor,Barbara Purves Pdf

Dementia is a devastating disorder which may dramatically interfere with decision-making abilities. Effort has focused on trying to determine when a person is no longer capable of making particular decisions or is globally incompetent. However, much less focus has been placed on understanding how the capacity to make decisions influences one's view of oneself, one's world and one's treatment by others. This book aims to broaden discussion around this issue by moving beyond a focus on notions of capability and competence to explore the importance of personhood and the underlying complexities of decision-making for those with dementia. Based on papers from the Centre for Research on Personhood in Dementia (CRPD) workshop, experts in dementia care, law, ethics and philosophy discuss the interface between dementia, personhood and decision-making. Drawing on a wide range of interdisciplinary and international perspectives, the book forges new understandings of relationships between everyday, informal decision-making and more formal biomedical or legal processes for assessing competence. This collection of papers provides an in-depth understanding of decision-making in relation to dementia for researchers, healthcare practitioners, service providers, legal professionals and anyone with an interest in personhood in dementia care.

Author : Stan van Hooft
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401202534

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Life, Death, and Subjectivity by Stan van Hooft Pdf

This book presents an exploration of concepts central to health care practice. In exploring such concepts as Subjectivity, Life, Personhood, and Death in deep philosophical terms, the book aims to draw out the ethical demands that arise when we encounter these phenomena, and also the moral resources of health care workers for meeting those demands. The series Values in Bioethics makes available original philosophical books in all areas of bioethics, including medical and nursing ethics, health care ethics, research ethics, environmental ethics, and global bioethics.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Life Sciences,Committee on A Framework for Developing a New Taxonomy of Disease
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309222228

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Toward Precision Medicine by National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Life Sciences,Committee on A Framework for Developing a New Taxonomy of Disease Pdf

Motivated by the explosion of molecular data on humans-particularly data associated with individual patients-and the sense that there are large, as-yet-untapped opportunities to use this data to improve health outcomes, Toward Precision Medicine explores the feasibility and need for "a new taxonomy of human disease based on molecular biology" and develops a potential framework for creating one. The book says that a new data network that integrates emerging research on the molecular makeup of diseases with clinical data on individual patients could drive the development of a more accurate classification of diseases and ultimately enhance diagnosis and treatment. The "new taxonomy" that emerges would define diseases by their underlying molecular causes and other factors in addition to their traditional physical signs and symptoms. The book adds that the new data network could also improve biomedical research by enabling scientists to access patients' information during treatment while still protecting their rights. This would allow the marriage of molecular research and clinical data at the point of care, as opposed to research information continuing to reside primarily in academia. Toward Precision Medicine notes that moving toward individualized medicine requires that researchers and health care providers have access to very large sets of health- and disease-related data linked to individual patients. These data are also critical for developing the information commons, the knowledge network of disease, and ultimately the new taxonomy.

Author : Gary E. Varner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780199758784

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Personhood, Ethics, and Animal Cognition by Gary E. Varner Pdf

The book also draws heavily on empirical research on consciousness and cognition in non-human animals as a way of approaching the question of which animals, if any, are "persons," or at least "near-persons".