Caring About Health

Sommario

Contents: Preface; Part 1 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. Part 2 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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: HOOFT, Stan Van Hooft, Hooft Stan van, Stan van Hooft
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9780815387923
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-8792-3
• Pagine: 238
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Filosofia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy