Foucault at the bedside: a critical analysis of empowering a health lifestyle
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- Ignaas Devisch (UGent) and Stijn Vanheule (UGent)
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- Since quite a few years, philosophy is heading towards the bedside of the patient: the practice of philosophy has stepped out of its ivory tower, it seems, to deal with empirical or practical questions. Apart from the advantages, we should keep in mind the importance of a critical analysis of medical or clinical practice as such. If ethics partakes the clinical stage, it runs the risk only to discuss the how question and to forget the more fundamental what or why questions: what are we doing exactly and why is it good for? Starting from the principle of the empowerment of the patient, we will demonstrate how the discourse on empowerment in health care seems to forget a profound reflection upon this principle as such. By rehearsing some basics from the governmentality theory of Michel Foucault and the actualization of it by Nicolas Rose, we will argue how philosophical investigation in medical-ethical evolutions such as empowerment of the patient is still needed to understand what is really going on in today's clinical practice.
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- patient-centred care, evaluation, public health, PATIENT, CARE, GOVERNMENTALITY, PRACTITIONERS, EVOLUTION, PROMOTION, NURSES, DEATH
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-6842608
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- Devisch, Ignaas, and Stijn Vanheule. “Foucault at the Bedside: A Critical Analysis of Empowering a Health Lifestyle.” JOURNAL OF EVALUATION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE, vol. 21, no. 3, 2015, pp. 427–32, doi:10.1111/jep.12329.
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- Devisch, I., & Vanheule, S. (2015). Foucault at the bedside: a critical analysis of empowering a health lifestyle. JOURNAL OF EVALUATION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE, 21(3), 427–432. https://doi.org/10.1111/jep.12329
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- Devisch, Ignaas, and Stijn Vanheule. 2015. “Foucault at the Bedside: A Critical Analysis of Empowering a Health Lifestyle.” JOURNAL OF EVALUATION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE 21 (3): 427–32. https://doi.org/10.1111/jep.12329.
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- Devisch, Ignaas, and Stijn Vanheule. 2015. “Foucault at the Bedside: A Critical Analysis of Empowering a Health Lifestyle.” JOURNAL OF EVALUATION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE 21 (3): 427–432. doi:10.1111/jep.12329.
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- 1.Devisch I, Vanheule S. Foucault at the bedside: a critical analysis of empowering a health lifestyle. JOURNAL OF EVALUATION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE. 2015;21(3):427–32.
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- [1]I. Devisch and S. Vanheule, “Foucault at the bedside: a critical analysis of empowering a health lifestyle,” JOURNAL OF EVALUATION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 427–432, 2015.
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