The Logic of Care - Annemarie Mol

The Logic of Care

Health and the Problem of Patient Choice

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
156 Seiten
2008
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-45342-4 (ISBN)
168,35 inkl. MwSt
What is ‘good care’ and does more choice lead to better care? This innovative and compelling work investigates good care and argues that the often touted ideal of ‘patient choice’ will not improve healthcare in the ways hoped for by its advocates.
**Shortlisted for the BSA Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2010**

What is good care? In this innovative and compelling book, Annemarie Mol argues that good care has little to do with 'patient choice' and, therefore, creating more opportunities for patient choice will not improve health care.

Although it is possible to treat people who seek professional help as customers or citizens, Mol argues that this undermines ways of thinking and acting crucial to health care. Illustrating the discussion with examples from diabetes clinics and diabetes self care, the book presents the 'logic of care' in a step by step contrast with the 'logic of choice'. She concludes that good care is not a matter of making well argued individual choices but is something that grows out of collaborative and continuing attempts to attune knowledge and technologies to diseased bodies and complex lives.

Mol does not criticise the practices she encountered in her field work as messy or ad hoc, but makes explicit what it is that motivates them: an intriguing combination of adaptability and perseverance. The Logic of Care: Health and the problem of patient choice is crucial reading for all those interested in the theory and practice of care, including sociologists, anthropologists and health care professionals. It will also speak to policymakers and become a valuable source of inspiration for patient activists.

Annemarie Mol is Socrates Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Twente, the Netherlands.

1. Two Logics 2. Customer or Patient? 3. The Citizen and the Body 4. Managing versus Doctoring 5. Individual and Collective 6. The Good in Practice

Erscheint lt. Verlag 24.5.2008
Zusatzinfo 1 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Gewicht 340 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
Medizin / Pharmazie Gesundheitswesen
Studium 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Humanbiologie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-415-45342-9 / 0415453429
ISBN-13 978-0-415-45342-4 / 9780415453424
Zustand Neuware
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