Affective Injustice in Healthcare

This book explores the ambiguous role of affects in healthcare work and medical education. At the same time that healthcare professionals are often encouraged to suppress or downplay their affects in order to maintain a sense of professionalism, those of patients are frequently misunderstood or unhe...

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Hovedforfatter: Bogaert, Brenda
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description This book explores the ambiguous role of affects in healthcare work and medical education. At the same time that healthcare professionals are often encouraged to suppress or downplay their affects in order to maintain a sense of professionalism, those of patients are frequently misunderstood or unheard - both within clinical settings and beyond. We argue that these are examples of affective injustice, instances in which emotional expression is dismissed as unprofessional, unproductive, or inappropriate in healthcare. We show that the suppression of affects is not only unrealistic but also potentially harmful, and how it can lead to burnout and dissatisfaction among healthcare providers as well as negatively affect care quality, in particular for marginalized groups. The ambition of the book is therefore to bring this controversial issue to the forefront and to demonstrate the value of affects in healthcare and medical education, as well as to offer several methodologies for greater affective expression and recognition in healthcare institutions.The first part of the book lays the theoretical groundwork, examining the relevance of the concept of affective injustice for healthcare, and the problems that affective injustice creates for care actors and for care quality. The second part offers some practical methodologies to move toward affective justice for patients and healthcare providers. Proposals include narrative methods, spiritual care, emotionally responsive hospital design and architecture, the possibilities and limits offered by patient research partners, and pedagogies for medical education. The book will end by showing how to take the framework forward, in particular through empirical bioethics research.This book will be of interest to scholars and educators in medical ethics, interdisciplinary researchers in the medical humanities, as well as patients, families, and healthcare providers interested in the role of affects in healthcare.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1684112025-10-21T05:26:36Z Affective Injustice in Healthcare Bogaert, Brenda Open Access Clincial Ethics Epistemic Injustice Affects Research Methods Bioethics clinical ethicist bioethicist healthcare work medical education thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAD Bioethics thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine::MBNH Personal and public health / health education::MBNH9 Health psychology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFN Health, illness and addiction: social aspects thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MQ Nursing and ancillary services This book explores the ambiguous role of affects in healthcare work and medical education. At the same time that healthcare professionals are often encouraged to suppress or downplay their affects in order to maintain a sense of professionalism, those of patients are frequently misunderstood or unheard - both within clinical settings and beyond. We argue that these are examples of affective injustice, instances in which emotional expression is dismissed as unprofessional, unproductive, or inappropriate in healthcare. We show that the suppression of affects is not only unrealistic but also potentially harmful, and how it can lead to burnout and dissatisfaction among healthcare providers as well as negatively affect care quality, in particular for marginalized groups. The ambition of the book is therefore to bring this controversial issue to the forefront and to demonstrate the value of affects in healthcare and medical education, as well as to offer several methodologies for greater affective expression and recognition in healthcare institutions.The first part of the book lays the theoretical groundwork, examining the relevance of the concept of affective injustice for healthcare, and the problems that affective injustice creates for care actors and for care quality. The second part offers some practical methodologies to move toward affective justice for patients and healthcare providers. Proposals include narrative methods, spiritual care, emotionally responsive hospital design and architecture, the possibilities and limits offered by patient research partners, and pedagogies for medical education. The book will end by showing how to take the framework forward, in particular through empirical bioethics research.This book will be of interest to scholars and educators in medical ethics, interdisciplinary researchers in the medical humanities, as well as patients, families, and healthcare providers interested in the role of affects in healthcare. 2025-10-21T05:26:35Z 2025-10-21T05:26:35Z 2025-10-20T11:12:06Z 2025 book ONIX_20251020T130859_9783031943782_6 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/107639 9783031943782 9783031943775 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/168411 eng The International Library of Bioethics; Religion and Philosophy; Philosophy and Religion (R0) open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/107639/1/9783031943782.pdf Springer Nature Springer 10.1007/978-3-031-94378-2 10.1007/978-3-031-94378-2 9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a e892e291-9ca0-47e0-bfd3-88ac83cbdeda 9783031943782 9783031943775 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) Springer 202 Cham [...] open access
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Research Methods
Bioethics
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medical education
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Bogaert, Brenda
Affective Injustice in Healthcare
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Clincial Ethics
Epistemic Injustice
Affects
Research Methods
Bioethics
clinical ethicist
bioethicist
healthcare work
medical education
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