Full Description
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, this 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.
Contents
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.
