Finding Meaning in Healthcare: Looking Through the Hermeneutic Window (1)

By: Robert Clarke and Rupal Shah and P. Syam Prasad

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Synopsis: This pioneering book illustrates the ways in which an interpretive or hermeneutic stance can be incorporated into modern healthcare across clinical practice, clinical ethics, education and leadership – and the transformative effects of doing so.Combining practical case studies and narrative, this book introduces the hermeneutic window, in which meaning making frames clinical and educational decision making. It shows how best practice requires more than clinical knowledge, communication skills and application of evidence based medicine. It is within the hermeneutic window that assumptions, meanings and values are examined, questioned and re-examined. Drawing on a wide range of expertise, the chapters challenge existing assumptions about the essence of healthcare and the role that clinicians play within it.This book is valuable reading for all healthcare practitioners, particularly GPs, physicians, psychiatrists and psychologists, as well as professions allied to medicine, medical students and other trainees.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 178 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781040412725
Related ISBNs:: 9781032853246, 9781032832166, 9781040412640, 9781003517665
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 08/29/25
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Rupal Shah and Robert Clarke
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Health, Mind and Body, Psychology, Education, Medicine
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Rupal Shah
Edited by:: Robert Clarke