The nature of the doctor-patient relationship : health care principles through the phenomenology of relationships with patients / Pierre Mallia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mallia, Pierre.

Series:

SpringerBriefs in Ethics, 2211-8101

SpringerBriefs in ethics, 2211-8101

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physician and patient.

Communication in medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (88 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2013.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, 2012, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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 based on 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. .

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

94-007-4939-2

OCLC:

806056232