Person-centred Primary Care: Searching for the Self

ISBN-13: 9780367885786 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 178 str.

Christopher Dowrick

Opis

Primary care, grounded in the provision of continuous comprehensive person-centred care, is vital to the delivery of effective health care. The central notion of person-centred care, however, relies on often-unexamined concepts of self. This book explores contemporary pressures on the sense of self for both patient and health professional

Spis treści

1 Recovering general practice from epistemic disadvantage

Sally Hull with George Hull

2 Mismanagement in general practice

Stefan Hjörleifsson and Kjersti Lea

3 Challenges to the ‘self ’ in IT-mediated health care

Deborah Swinglehurst

4 Subjectivity of patients and doctors

Iona Heath

5 In defence of the conscious mind 9

David Misselbrook

6 Patient, person, self

Christopher Dowrick

7 Unlocking the creative capacity of the self

Joanne Reeve

Epilogue

Christopher Dowrick

O autorze

Christopher Dowrick is Professor of Primary Medical Care at the University of Liverpool, UK.