Without Compassion, There Is No Healthcare
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Without Compassion, There Is No Healthcare

Leading with Care in a Technological Age

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eBook - ePub

Without Compassion, There Is No Healthcare

Leading with Care in a Technological Age

About this book

New technologies are transforming healthcare work and changing how patients interact with healthcare providers. As artificial intelligence systems, robotics, and data analytics become more sophisticated, some clinical tasks will become obsolete and others will be reconfigured. While it is not possible to predict these developments precisely, it is important to understand their inevitability and to prepare for the changes that lie ahead.

Without Compassion, There Is No Healthcare argues that compassion must be upheld as the bedrock and guiding purpose of healthcare work. Emerging technologies have the potential to subvert this purpose but also to enable and expand it, creating new conduits for compassionate care. Cultivating these benefits and guarding against potential threats will require vigilance and determination from healthcare providers, educators, leaders, patients, and advocates. The contributors to this book show the way forward, bringing a diverse range of expertise to confront these challenges. Avoiding platitudes and simple dichotomies, they examine what compassion in healthcare means and how it can be practised, now and in the uncertain future.

Without Compassion, There Is No Healthcare is a call to action. Drawing together a decade of evidence and insight generated by a community of leading scholars and practitioners committed to promoting compassionate care, it offers steady principles and practices to steer the way through times of technological change.

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Yes, you can access Without Compassion, There Is No Healthcare by Brian D. Hodges, Gail Paech, Jocelyn Bennett, Brian D. Hodges,Gail Paech,Jocelyn Bennett in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Medicine & Health Care Delivery. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Tables and Figures
  5. PREFACE A Call to Caring
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. INTRODUCTION Technology, Compassion, and the Future of Healthcare
  8. PART ONE Coming to Terms with Compassion
  9. 1 Caring in a Digital Age: Exploring the Interface of Humans and Machines in the Provision of Compassionate Healthcare
  10. 2 Patient Engagement and Compassionate Care
  11. 3 Care in the Real World: Partial Perspectives on Compassion, Technology, and Equity
  12. PART TWO Cultivating Compassion
  13. 4 Healthcare Workers as Recipients of Compassion: Resilience, Burnout, and Relationship
  14. 5 Compassion and Health Professional Education
  15. 6 Compassionate Leadership
  16. 7 Toward Compassionate Healthcare Organizations
  17. CONCLUSIONS Shaping the Future of Compassionate Care
  18. References
  19. Contributors
  20. Index