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Has postmodern American culture so altered the terrain of medical care that moral confusion and deflated morale multiply faster than both technological advancements and ethical resolutions? The Ethos of Medicine in Postmodern America is an attempt to examine this question with reference to the cultural touchstones of our postmodern era: consumerism, computerization, corporatization, and destruction of meta-narratives. The cultural insights of postmodern thinkers-such as such as Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Lyotard, Baudrillard, Bauman, and Levinas-help elucidate the changes in healthcare delivery that are occurring early in the twenty-first century. Although only Foucault among this group actually focused his critique on medical care itself, their combined analysis provides a valuable perspective for gaining understanding of contemporary changes in healthcare delivery. It is often difficult to envision what is happening in the psychosocial, cultural dynamic of an epoch as you experience it. Therefore it is useful to have a technique for refracting those observations through the lens of another system of thought. The prism of postmodern thought offers such a device with which to "view the eclipse" of changing medical practice.
Any professional practice is always thoroughly embedded in the social and cultural matrix of its society, and the medical profession in America is no exception. In drawing upon of the insights of key Continental thinkers such and American scholars, this book does not necessarily endorse the views of postmodernism but trusts that much can be learned from their insight. Furthermore, its analysis is informed by empirical information from health services research and the sociology of medicine. Arnold R. Eiser develops a new understanding of healthcare delivery in the twenty-first century and suggests positive developments that might be nurtured to avoid the barren "Silicon Cage" of corporate, bureaucratized medical practice.
Central to this analysis are current healthcare issues such as the patient-centered medical home, clinical practice guidelines, and electronic health records. This interdisciplinary examination reveals insights valuable to anyone working in postmodern thought, medical sociology, bioethics, or health services research.
Arnold R. Eiser is associate dean for Mercy Programs and professor of medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine. He also serves the Pennsylvania chapter of the American College of Physicians as the chair of its Health and Public Policy Committee.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Ethos of Medicine in Postmodern America Chapter 1: The Ethos of Medical Practice in this Postmodern Age of Computerized Consumerism Chapter 2: The Social Construction of Medical Knowledge Chapter 3: The Culture of Medical Practice: Corporate Computerization versus the Face of the Other Chapter 4: Practical and Ethical Concerns Regarding Aspects of Quality Improvement Processes Chapter 5: The Uneven Encounter Between Postmodern Expectations and Corporate Control of Medical Practice Chapter 6: Power and Trust in the Patient-Physician Relationship: Postmodern Values and the Patient Centered Medical Home Chapter 7: Medical Education in Postmodern Society Chapter 8: Medical Professionalism: What Does Altruism Have to Do with It? Chapter 9: Postmodern Physician Ethos and Morale Chapter 10: Bioethics in Postmodern America Chapter 11: The. Ethos of Medicine, Peformativity, and the Silicon Cage Chapter 12: Medical Care is Embedded in American Culture: Repositioning the Medical Ethos for the 21st Century Epilogue Bibliography
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