Mallia The Nature of the Doctor-Patient Relationship

Health Care Principles through the phenomenology of relationships with patients
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-94-007-4939-9
Verlag: Springer Netherland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 86 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: SpringerBriefs in Ethics

This book serves to unite biomedical principles, which have been criticized as a model for solving moral dilemmas by inserting them and understanding them through the perspective of the phenomenon of health care relationship. Consequently, it attributes a possible unification of virtue-based and principle-based approaches.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mallia, Pierre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- CHAPTER 1 Critical overview of principlist theories.- 1.1 The ‘Four-Principles’ Approach.- 1.1.1 Theoretical basis.- 1.1.2 The Paradigm case.- 1.1.3 The doctor-patient relationship.- 1.2  Robert Veatch’s model of Lexical Ordering.- 1.3 The Principle of Permission.- CHAPTER 2 Phenomenological roots of Principles.- 2.1  The nature of the physician-patient relationship.- 2.1.1 Communication.- 2.1.2 Goals of Medicine.- 2.1.3  The ‘care’ in Health Care.- 2.1.4  The special bond.- 2.2  The Principle of Beneficence and virtue.- 2.3  Nonmaleficence.- 2.3.1  Patient authority or trust.- 2.3.2  Epistemology.- 2.4  Respect for Autonomy.- 2.4.1  A historical and epistemological perspective.- 2.4.2  A cultural appraisal.- 2.5  The dual nature of Justice.- 2.5.1  The Justice of society.- 2.5.2  Justice in Health-Care.- CHAPTER 3 Principles as a consequence of the relationship.- 3.1  Need for grounding principles in.- the relationship.- 3.2  Defining the ontological entities.- 3.3 The physician as an entity.- 3.3.1  Levelling-down of medical relationships.- 3.3.2  Being as Understanding.- 3.4  The Patient as entity - potential for being truly-autonomous.- 3.4.1  Dimensions of the illness experience.- 3.4.2  True Autonomy and the Authenticity of the relationship.- 3.5 Hermeneutics of the relationship.- 3.6  Phenomenology of the clinical encounter.- CHAPTER 4 The principle of Justice in a secular society.- 4.1 Being-with-one-another and the Golden Rule.- 4.1.1 Being-with-one-another.- 4.1.2  The Golden Rule.- 4.2  Common Values.- 4.2.1  Implications in Bioethics.- 4.2.2 The naturalistic fallacy.- 4.3  Common morality and Being-with-one-another.- 4.3.1 Confronting rival traditions.- 4.3.2 Being-with-one-another.- CHAPTER 5 The question of social construct theories Reappraising and phenomenology of the doctor-patient relationship.-    5.1 Post-modernism and medicine.- 5.2 Socially constructed theories.- 5.3 A philosophy basedon the phenomenology of the relationship.- 5.4 The ontology of the patient, the doctor and the relationship.- 5.5 Truth concealed.- 5.6 The Clinical Encounter.- CHAPTER 6.-  Conclusion.- BIBLIOGRAPHY.