1st Edition
Person-centred Primary Care Searching for the Self
Edited By Christopher Dowrick
Copyright 2018
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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Primary care, grounded in the provision of continuous comprehensive person-centred care, is of paramount importance in the delivery of accessible and effective health care around the world. The central notion of person-centred care, however, relies on often-unexamined concepts of self, or understandings of what it means to be a person and an agent. This cutting-edge book explores contemporary... Read more
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
Biography
Christopher Dowrick is Professor of Primary Medical Care at the University of Liverpool, UK.
