Values-based decision-making for the caring professions / David Seedhouse.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Seedhouse, David, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Medical personnel--Decision making.
• Medical care--Decision making.
• Values.
• Decision Making--ethics.
• Delivery of Health Care--ethics.
• Medical personnel.
• Decision making.

Medical Subjects:

• Decision Making--ethics.
• Delivery of Health Care--ethics.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 158 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Chichester ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, [2005]

Summary:

• We have lost sight of the vital symmetry between values and evidence. Values lie behind absolutely everything we do, yet we allow technical decision-making to dominate every social sphere, as if only 'the evidence' really matters.
• In this extraordinarily original and compelling book, David Seedhouse advocates values-based decision-making as a much-needed means of restoring humane balance to social planning, and explains the innovative use of information technology to turn values into evidence.
• The potential of values-based decision-making is huge and exciting. The final chapter of this seminal work points the way to a democratic future in which everyone's values can be seen and heard, regardless of technical knowledge or social status.
• Values-Based Decision-Making mostly uses examples drawn from the health field. Like David Seedhouse's many other books, it will be of considerable interest to all health professionals. But values-based decision-making reaches into every arena of human problem-solving, and should therefore be read by everyone who makes plans on behalf of other people.

Contents:

• Part 1 Mr Spock's Mistake
• Chapter 1 The Limits of Reason 3
• Chapter 2 The Dominance of Values 33
• Part 2 The Big Picture
• Chapter 3 The Truth about Relativism 47
• Chapter 4 How to Turn Values into Evidence 95
• Chapter 5 Goodbye Ethics Experts - The Democratic Promise of Values-Based Decision-Making 117.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [145]-149) and index.

ISBN:

• 0470847344
• 0470847352

OCLC:

60394142

Publisher Number:

• 9780470847343
• 9780470847350