Anticipation and Medicine
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Anticipation and Medicine

A Critical Analysis of the Science, Praxis and Perversion of Evidence Based Healthcare

  1. 140 pages
  2. English
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Anticipation and Medicine

A Critical Analysis of the Science, Praxis and Perversion of Evidence Based Healthcare

About this book

Anticipation in Medicine: A Critical Analysis of the Science, Praxis and Perversion of Evidence Based Healthcare looks at an aspect of healthcare rarely addressed: how the capitalist interest in diagnosis and treatment impacts upon the patient and, by extension, the system of healthcare itself. Using Lacanian structures of discourse, Dr. Owen Dempsey critiques the praxis of scientific Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) applied to anticipatory and preventive healthcare under capitalism and ultimately, what constitutes good care.

This book features up-to-date case studies that combine real-life patients and the psychological impacts of anticipatory care such as cancer screening in the modern era. The book identifies the dangers of anticipatory care in medicine and provides compelling and new possibilities for progressing towards a more emancipatory conception of a less knowing, less apparently compassionate, as well as less harmful practice of health care.

This is fascinating reading for academics, students and practitioners interested in critical health psychology, the practice of 'scientific' medicine, and the politics of health and social care.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781138500730
eBook ISBN
9781351374859
Topic
Psychology
Subtopic
Applied Psychology
Index
Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Anticipation and Medicine
  3. Concepts for Critical Psychology: Disciplinary Boundaries Re-Thought
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Introduction
  11. 1 The Care Paradox
  12. 2 Science and Politics
  13. 3 Science and Politics – a Case History: Breast Cancer Screening
  14. 4 Language, Harm and Overdiagnosis – a Case History: the Real Cancer Paradox
  15. 5 Politics and Consciousness
  16. 6 Subjectivity, Care-Labour and Lacan’s Structures of Discourse
  17. 7 Subjectivities of Care – a Case History: Alienating Identities
  18. 8 The Opportunity Costs of Neoliberal Pragmatist Anticipatory Care – a Case History: a Molecular Genetic ‘signature’ for Cancer Risk
  19. 9 Two Impossibilities: Burnout and the Depersonalisation of Care-Giving
  20. 10 Neoliberal Pragmatism Incites Perversion: The Capitalist Discourse
  21. 11 The Oedipus Complex and Perverse Care-Provision: A Case History
  22. 12 The Biopolitics of Anticipatory Care: Spinoza and the Prohibition of Health
  23. Conclusion
  24. References
  25. Index