Finding Meaning in Healthcare

Looking Through the Hermeneutic Window
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-85324-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

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, the 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.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clarke, Robert

Shah, Rupal

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Allgemeinmedizin, Familienmedizin
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Krankenpflege
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizin, Gesundheit: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Angewandte Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Victor Montori. Chapter 1. An Introduction to the Four Domain Model Robert Clarke and Rupal Shah. Chapter 2. A History of Hermeneutics Emma Ladds. Chapter 3. Nudging the Status Quo Emma Ladds, Melissa Sayer and Rupal Shah. Chapter 4. Hermeneutic Approaches in Complex Multimorbidity Sophie Park and Martina Ann Kelly. Chapter 5. Hermeneutic Approaches in Mental Health and Chronic Pain Jens Foell and Sami Timimi. Chapter 6. Hermeneutics - An Ethical and Philosophical Perspective Paquita de Zulueta and John Spicer. Chapter 7. A Hermeneutic Approach to Social Injustice Austin O’Carroll. Chapter 8. The Human Element in the Age of AI: Balancing Technology and Meaning in Medicine Marcus Lewis, Sylvie Delacroix, David Fraile Navarro, Richard Lehman. Chapter 9. Hermeneutic Approaches to Leadership Jo-Anne Johnson and Sanjiv Ahluwalia. Chapter 10. Meaning Making in Frontline Medical Education John Launer and Louise Younie. Chapter 11. A Hermeneutic Approach to Professionalism and the Link with Practical Wisdom
Sabena Jameel. Chapter 12. Flourishing Spaces Louise Younie. Chapter 13. Quality Rebellion: Hermeneutics Beyond the Clinical Encounter Jane Myat and Jane Riddiford.

Über Autor(innen)

Rupal Shah is a GP and medical educator in London. She has published widely in the field of medical education, including Fighting for the Soul of General Practice – the algorithm will see you now (Intellect Books, 2024).

Robert Clarke is a retired GP and medical educator who has a longstanding interest in evidence based medicine. He first formulated the hermeneutic window to demonstrate that biomedical and humanistic approaches are complementary and has collaborated with Rupal Shah and colleagues in arguing that meaning making is essential in healthcare.