“His humanistic values and philosophical spirit are passionately
unleashed against the destructive effects of commodification, managerialism and
market in healthcare with searing precision.”
Professor Sue Wheeler, Department of
Counselling & Psychotherapy, University of Leicester
“This book should be on every health professional’s desk”
Professor John Sloboda FBA
Emeritus Professor of Psychology,
Keele University
The last two decades have seen a disturbing and growing disparity
emerge in our publicly-administered healthcare.
Generally, while our technical
interventions for the curable get better, our other human engagements and
understandings get worse. This is happening despite energetic political
commitments, enormous funding and numerous specialist training and regulatory
bodies. Why?
This second volume of the Anthology documents this new era and
proposes that the technical and managerial approaches that are so helpful in
tackling curable diseases (the ‘factory’) are now serving us poorly elsewhere –
the larger fraction of our healthcare where we need, instead, personally
attuned contacts of flexibility and imagination (a ‘family’).
The complexity of this errored evolution and its consequences are
demonstrated by lively and engaging vignettes of healthcare encounters linked
by wide-scoped and unusual explanations.
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