Debates in Values-Based Practice: Arguments For and Against - Hardcover

 
9781107038936: Debates in Values-Based Practice: Arguments For and Against
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1107038936 ISBN 13: 9781107038936
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Demands on healthcare systems are increasingly complex and diverse. Consumerism, multiculturalism and regulation challenge practitioners and policymakers. This has led to urgent debate about the value and purpose of healthcare as people seek to make serious, well-thought through decisions. This book helps readers to make rational decisions about healthcare provision in the context of complex and diverse values. It offers no easy solutions, instead presenting a range of perspectives and arguments on values-based practice, an increasingly influential approach to managing value-conflicts/differences in medicine, psychiatry, health and social care. Readers must make their own minds up about the controversies, but this book will give them a sense of the scene and the ability to defend their own position with clarity and confidence. This is a valuable resource for health practitioners and managers, academics in health services research and policy and students of management, bioethics, applied philosophy and political and social theory.

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About the Author

Michael Loughlin is Reader in Applied Philosophy in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1107038936
ISBN 13 
9781107038936
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
290
Editor
Loughlin Michael