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Rethinking Healthcare Improvement

Philosophy and Ethics in Practice

AvAlan Cribb,Polly Mitchell

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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What is ‘good’ healthcare? Can we define and deliver it, or will we simply make things better for some people and worse for others? Bringing together the fields of philosophy and healthcare, this open access book provides a much needed framework for understanding and navigating the conceptual and ethical issues at the heart of healthcare improvement. This accessible text reveals the contribution philosophy can make to the provision of quality healthcare, combining theory and practice with a wide range of case studies, such as urban poverty screening in US primary care and UK concerns to underpin anti-racist practice.Throughout, the authors advocate ‘pragmatic pluralism’, emphasizing compassion, social justice and practical wisdom alongside techniques, measures and outcomes. Across public policy, bioethics, healthcare management, social sciences and beyond, it is a must-read for students, scholars andpractitioners alike.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-07-09
Mått:142 x 218 x 24 mm
Vikt:540 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350547124

Utforska kategorier

Medicinsk etik och läkaretik inom Medicin
Hälso- och sjukvård inom Medicin
Biovetenskap inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

Alan Cribb is a Professor of Bioethics at King’s College London, UK.Polly Mitchell is a baker at e5 Bakehouse and was previously a Research Fellow at King’s College London, UK.Vikki Entwistle is a Professor in Health Services Research and Philosophy at University of Aberdeen, UK.

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This is the book change agents in healthcare have been waiting for. It delivers a much-needed frame shift from implementation ‘science’ to the practical ethics of implementation in practice. It exhorts us to question taken-for-granted assumptions about what needs to be implemented and how, and reasserts the importance of judgement, deliberation, reflexivity and moral accountability in improvement efforts.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction Part I: Unpacking Improvement1. The Evolving Field of Improvement 2. Acknowledging Complexity Part II: Analyzing Concepts3. Quality is Plural 4. Operationalizing Quality 5. The ‘Softness’ of Quality Part III: Making Ethics Visible6. Ethics and Healthcare Improvement 7. Practising Improvement Part IV: Rethinking Improvement8. Radical Improvement 9. Philosophy for Healthcare Improvement Notes References Index