A sense of life: the future of industrial-style health care.
In this article I attempt to transcend the mainstream conception of health care ethics, including nursing ethics, by bringing into the foreground a tension between a sense of life and an industrial-bureaucratic style of health care, with its emphasis on the systematic and procedural work culture necessary for mass production. I use the concept of 'a sense of life' to draw attention to the wisdom, sensitivity and responsibility that is necessary for the authentic care of others to be given a chance in the development of modern health care. I emphasize the mindfulness that the professional requires for genuine care, and how the systematic organization of modern health care, on the whole, ignores, obstructs and even suppresses such mindfulness.
Hunt
Geoffrey
G
Kagawa Medical University, Japan. g.hunt@surrey.ac.uk
D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001364:Awareness; D002962:Civilization; D004645:Empathy; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D005544:Forecasting; D019981:Health Care Sector / Q000941:ethics / Q000639:trends; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006694:Holistic Health; D006808:Humanism; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D015279:Organizational Culture; D010344:Patient Advocacy / Q000941:ethics* / Q000523:psychology; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing