Caring and Well-being: A Lifeworld Approach (Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness)

Galvin, Kathleen

ISBN 10: 0415504600 / ISBN 13: 9780415504607

Published by Routledge, 2012

About this Item

Investigating what it means to be human in a health and social care context and what the things that make us feel more human are, this book presents new perspectives about how professionals can enhance their capacity for humanly sensitive care. Num Pages: 224 pages, 5 black & white tables, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: MBDP; MBP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 165 x 18. Weight in Grams: 464. . 2012. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Caring and Well-being: A Lifeworld Approach (Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415504600
• ISBN 13: 9780415504607
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Something is missing in contemporary health and social care. Health and illness is often measured in policy documents in economic terms, and clinical outcomes are enmeshed in statistical data, with the patient’s experience left to one side. This stimulating book is concerned with how to humanise health and social care and keep the person at the centre of practice.

Caring and Well-Being

opens by articulating Galvin and Todres’ innovative framework for humanising health care and closes with a synthesis of their argument and a discussion of how this can be applied in healthcare policy and practice. It:

• presents an innovative lifeworld-led approach to the humanisation of care;
• explores the concept of well-being and its relationship to suffering and outlines the rationale for a focus on them within this approach;
• discusses how the framework can be applied and how health and social practitioners can draw on aesthetic and empathic avenues to help develop their capacity for care;
• provides direction for policy, practice and education.

Investigating what it means to be human in a health and social care context and what the things that make us feel more human are, this book presents new perspectives about how professionals can enhance their capacity for humanly sensitive care. It is a valuable work for all those interested in ideas about care and caring in a health and social context, including psychologists, doctors and nurses.

About the Author

Kathleen Galvin is Professor of Nursing Practice in the Faculty of Health and Social Care, University of Hull, UK.

Les Todres is a clinical psychologist and Professor of Health Philosophy at the School of Health and Social Care, Bournemouth University, UK.