Emerging Values in Health Care : The Challenge for Professionals

by Pattison, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9781843109471
• ISBN10: 1843109476
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-01
• Publisher: JESSICA KINGSLEY

Summary

This multi-authored, interdisciplinary volume charts how health care professional values have changed over the last forty years, and will help health care professionals understand where they have come from, where they are now, and where they might aspire to venture in the future. It examines how different health care groups and associations are responding to changing values, and outlines the practical implications for a variety of health care professions and professionals. The authors also look at what can be learnt about the changing nature of health care institutions, practices and professions by examining changing values, and discuss how changing organisational and professional values, and the tensions therein, manifest in specific professional contexts. Each chapter is followed by a critical response from a senior health care professional.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 9
Introduction	p. 11
Changing Health Care, Changing Professions	p. 23
Why Do Changes in Society and Institutions Matter for Professional Values?	p. 43
Contesting Narratives: Medical Professional Identity Formation amidst Changing Values	p. 61
Response	p. 78
General Practitioners and their Values in a Late Modern World	p. 85
Response	p. 102
Values and Mental Health Nursing	p. 109
Response	p. 122
Values and Adult General Nursing	p. 129
Response	p. 141
The Profession of Pharmacy in the United Kingdom: Changing Values?	p. 145
Response	p. 159
Professional Values in Interaction: Non-directiveness, Client-centredness and Other-orientation in Genetic Counselling	p. 163
Response	p. 180
The Chaplain's Dilemma	p. 187
Response	p. 203
What Are the Values of NHS Managers, and How Have they Changed since 1983?	p. 209
Response	p. 225
Health Care Professions and their Changing Values: Pulling Professions Together	p. 229
List of Contributors	p. 245
Subject Index	p. 247
Author Index	p. 251
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