The Logic of Care: Health and the problem of patient choice

by Mol; Annemarie

• ISBN13: 9780415453431
• ISBN10: 0415453437
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-07-23
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

What is good care? In this innovative and compelling book, Annemarie Mol argues that good care has little to do with 'patient choice' and, therefore, creating more opportunities for patient choice will not improve health care.

Author Biography

Annemarie Mol is Socrates Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Twente, the Netherlands

Table of Contents

Prologue	p. ix
Two logics	p. 1
Cliches of the West	p. 2
Active patients	p. 6
The method	p. 8
The book	p. 11
Customer or patient?	p. 14
Product or process	p. 16
Target group or team member	p. 20
Dreams or support	p. 23
Hoping for health or living with disease	p. 26
Actors who let go	p. 27
The citizen and the body	p. 29
Control or attentiveness	p. 31
Tame or nourish	p. 34
Determined or alive	p. 37
Who is in charge or what to do	p. 40
Managing versus doctoring	p. 42
Informative facts or target values	p. 43
Means or modifiers	p. 46
Calculating or attuning	p. 50
Managing doctors or shared doctoring	p. 54
Individual and collective	p. 57
Pre-given individuals or careful individuation	p. 59
Adding equals or crafting categories	p. 62
Healthy behaviour or helpful conditions	p. 66
The hidden brave	p. 70
The good in practice	p. 73
Morality in action	p. 74
Active patients	p. 79
Improving health care	p. 83
Translations	p. 89
Acknowledgements	p. 95
Notes	p. 98
Literature	p. 116
Index	p. 126
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