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Values-based decision-making for the caring professions / David Seedhouse.
Holman Biotech Commons R723.5 .S44 2005
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- 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
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