The Nature of the Doctor-Patient Relationship. Health Care Principles through the Phenomenology of Relationships with Patients (Springerbriefs…)

ABOUT THIS BOOK

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. ​

Content Level » Research
Keywords » biomedical principles - health care ethics - health care principles - health care relationships
Related subjects » Applied Ethics & Social Responsibility - Health Psychology & Behavioral Medicine - Medicine

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction.

CHAPTER 1 Critical overview of principlist theories.

1. The ‘Four-Principles’ Approach.
1. Theoretical basis.
2. The Paradigm case.
3. The doctor-patient relationship.
2. Robert Veatch’s model of Lexical Ordering.
3. The Principle of Permission.

CHAPTER 2 Phenomenological roots of Principles.

1. The nature of the physician-patient relationship.
1. Communication.
2. Goals of Medicine.
3. The ‘care’ in Health Care.
4. The special bond.
2. The Principle of Beneficence and virtue.
3. Nonmaleficence.
1. Patient authority or trust.
2. Epistemology.
4. Respect for Autonomy.
1. A historical and epistemological perspective.
2. A cultural appraisal.
5. The dual nature of Justice.
1. The Justice of society.
2. Justice in Health-Care.

CHAPTER 3 Principles as a consequence of the relationship.

1. Need for grounding principles in.the relationship.
2. Defining the ontological entities.
3. The physician as an entity.
1. Levelling-down of medical relationships.
2. Being as Understanding.
4. The Patient as entity - potential for being truly-autonomous.
1. Dimensions of the illness experience.
2. True Autonomy and the Authenticity of the relationship.
5. Hermeneutics of the relationship.
6. Phenomenology of the clinical encounter.

CHAPTER 4 The principle of Justice in a secular society.

1. Being-with-one-another and the Golden Rule.
1. Being-with-one-another.
2. The Golden Rule.
2. Common Values.
1. Implications in Bioethics.
2. The naturalistic fallacy.
3. Common morality and Being-with-one-another.
1. Confronting rival traditions.
2. Being-with-one-another.

CHAPTER 5 The question of social construct theories Reappraising and phenomenology of the doctor-patient relationship.

1. Post-modernism and medicine.
2. Socially constructed theories.
3. A philosophy based on the phenomenology of the relationship.
4. The ontology of the patient, the doctor and the relationship.
5. Truth concealed.
6. The Clinical Encounter.

CHAPTER 6. Conclusion.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.