Health Professionals and Trust: The Cure for Healthcare Law and Policy
Henaghan, Mark
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Mark Henaghan Health Professionals and Trust: The Cure for Healthcare Law and Policy (Routledge, Oxon, 2012).
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Abstract:
An ever increasing number of codes of conduct, disciplinary bodies, ethics committees and bureaucratic policies now prescribe how health professionals and health researchers relate to their patients. In this book, Mark Henaghan argues that the result of this trend towards heightened regulation has been to diminish reliance upon their professional judgment, whilst simultaneously failing to trust patients to make decisions about their own care. This book examines the issue of health professionals and trust comparatively in a number of countries including the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. The book draws upon historical analysis of legislation, case law, disciplinary proceedings reports, articles in medical and law journals and protocols produced by management teams in hospitals, to illustrate the ways in which there has been a discernible shift away from trust in healthcare professionals. Henaghan argues that this erosion of trust has the potential to dehumanise the unique relationship that has traditionally existed between healthcare professionals and their patients, thereby running the risk of turning healthcare into a mechanistic enterprise controlled by ‘management processes’ rather than a humanistic relationship governed by trust and judgment. This book is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of medical law and medical sociology, public policy-makers and a range of associated professionals, from health-service managers to medical science and clinical researchers.
Date:
2012
Editor:
McLean, Sheila A.M.
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
146
ISBN:
978-0-415-49581-3; 978-0-415-49582-0 (pbk); 978-0-203-69709-2 (ebk)
Rights Statement:
Copyright Mark Henaghan 2012. All rights reserved.
Keywords:
New Zealand Law; Biomedical Law and Ethics; Healthcare
Research Type:
Book
Languages:
English
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