title: A sense of life: the future of industrial-style health care.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Kagawa Medical University, Japan. g.hunt@surrey.ac.uk
authors.forename: Geoffrey
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hunt
mesh_terms: 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