Finding Meaning in Healthcare
Looking Through the Hermeneutic Window
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About this book
This pioneering book illustrates the ways in which an interpretive or hermeneutic stance can be incorporated into modern healthcare across clinical practice, clinical ethics, education and leadership – and the transformative effects of doing so.
Combining practical case studies and narrative, this book introduces the hermeneutic window, in which meaning making frames clinical and educational decision making. It shows how best practice requires more than clinical knowledge, communication skills and application of evidence based medicine. It is within the hermeneutic window that assumptions, meanings and values are examined, questioned and re-examined. Drawing on a wide range of expertise, the chapters challenge existing assumptions about the essence of healthcare and the role that clinicians play within it.
This book is valuable reading for all healthcare practitioners, particularly GPs, physicians, psychiatrists and psychologists, as well as professions allied to medicine, medical students and other trainees.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsement Page
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- 1 An introduction to the Four Domain Model
- 2 A history of hermeneutics
- 3 Nudging the status quo
- 4 Hermeneutic approaches in complex multimorbidity
- 5 Hermeneutic approaches in mental health and chronic pain
- 6 Hermeneutics – an ethical and philosophical perspective
- 7 A hermeneutic approach to social injustice
- 8 The human element in the age of AI: Balancing technology and meaning in medicine
- 9 Hermeneutic approaches to leadership
- 10 Meaning making in frontline medical education
- 11 A hermeneutic approach to professionalism and the link with practical wisdom
- 12 Flourishing spaces
- 13 Quality rebellion: Hermeneutics beyond the clinical encounter
- Index