Troubling practices of control: re-visiting Hannah Arendt's ideas of human action as praxis of the unpredictable.
In this article, Hannah Arendt's concept of action will be used to problematize current transformations of the health care sector and examine some responses by ethicists in light of those transformations. The sphere of human interaction that should typify health care work is identified as an action of unpredictable praxis in contrast to controllable procedures and techniques which increasingly take place in the health care sector.
University of Vallandar, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Helen
H
Kohlen
D019981:Health Care Sector / Q000941:ethics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D009732:Nursing Care; D010684:Philosophy
Arendt; Transformation of Health Care; human condition; practices of control; the unpredictable