Personhood and Health Care

2013-04-17 Philosophy

Author : David C. Thomasma
Release : 2013-04-17
Genre : Philosophy
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Download or read book Personhood and Health Care written by David C. Thomasma. This book was released on 2013-04-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Personhood and Health Care

2014-03-14 Philosophy

Author : David C. Thomasma
Release : 2014-03-14
Genre : Philosophy
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Download or read book Personhood and Health Care written by David C. Thomasma. This book was released on 2014-03-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Defining Personhood

2021-11-15 Philosophy

Author : Sarah Bishop Merrill
Release : 2021-11-15
Genre : Philosophy
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Download or read book Defining Personhood written by Sarah Bishop Merrill. This book was released on 2021-11-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Integrity and Personhood

2007-05-08 Philosophy

Author : Erich E.H. Loewy
Release : 2007-05-08
Genre : Philosophy
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Download or read book Integrity and Personhood written by Erich E.H. Loewy. This book was released on 2007-05-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Person, Society and Value

2002-05-31 Medical

Author : Paulina Taboada
Release : 2002-05-31
Genre : Medical
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Download or read book Person, Society and Value written by Paulina Taboada. This book was released on 2002-05-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

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