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9780754653585

Caring About Health

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  • ISBN13:

    9780754653585

  • ISBN10:

    0754653587

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-04-01
  • Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co
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Summary

Presenting a philosophical exploration of the ideas central to health care practice, this book explores such concepts as caring, health, disease, suffering and pain from a phenomenological perspective. The book draws out the ethical demands that arise when one encounters these phenomena and the forms of ethical education that help health care workers respond to those demands.

Table of Contents

Preface
Health Care, Virtue and Education: Caring and professional commitment
Moral education for nursing decisions
Bioethics and caring
Towards a theory of caring
Acting from the virtue of caring
Socratic dialogue and the virtuous clinician
The Objects of Health Care: The body and well-being
Health and subjectivity
Disease and subjectivity
Suffering and the goals of medicine
Pain and communication
The meanings of suffering
Bibliography
Index
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