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A Flourishing Practice? looks at the moral problems that currently seem prevalent in health care. Common moral dilemmas highlighted by the media include threats to continuity of care, inappropriate care at the end of life, problems associated with commercialisation and privatisation of health care, defensiveness and risk aversion, and unrealistic expectations of care. The author argues that these all arise from a fundamental fragmentation of the value systems guiding our lives. The solution to these crises of professionalism and the pervading sense of moral crisis is the creation of a shared narrative. In this model of health care professionals and patients work together to cultivate the personal qualities that they need to flourish. Peter Toon is the leading writer on primary care virtue ethics and this thought-provoking book builds on the thinking of philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre. In A Flourishing Practice? the author: analyses the moral confusion facing health care today suggests a way forward based on cooperation rather than consumerism explores what this means for disease and illness re-examines professionalism considers the personal qualities professionals and patients need to live well and die well discusses the structures and institutions that health care needs to flourish. The book offers a vision for health care that benefits patients and professionals alike - and signposts possible solutions to current moral crises.
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Peter Toon 'speaks with authority and not as the scribes'. I of course am a professional scribe, so do not take my word for it. Read this book. Sara Maitland, April 2014
About the Author:
Peter Toon practised as a GP for 30 years. He also held academic posts at UCL, Queen Mary University of London and the GP Deanery, where he worked mainly on postgraduate and continuing education. He has written many academic papers, particularly on the ethics of medical reports, preventive health care and virtue ethics in medical practice, as well as his two major works, What is Good General Practice? and Towards a Philosophy of General Practice.
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- PublisherRoyal College of General practition
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 0850843537
- ISBN 13 9780850843538
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages145
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