Rethinking Healthcare Improvement
What is ‘good’ healthcare? Can we define and deliver it, or will we simply make things better for some people and worse for others? Bringing together the fields of philosophy and healthcare quality, this open access book provides a much-needed framework for understanding and navigating the conceptua...
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| description | What is ‘good’ healthcare? Can we define and deliver it, or will we simply make things better for some people and worse for others? Bringing together the fields of philosophy and healthcare quality, this open access book provides a much-needed framework for understanding and navigating the conceptual and ethical issues at the heart of healthcare improvement. Acknowledging the complexity in attempts to raise the quality of healthcare, including from different cultural and intellectual perspectives to ever-increasing costs, this book reveals the contribution philosophy can make to the provision of quality healthcare. In four clear parts, it uncovers the ethical commitments already embedded in health services and connects them with philosophical literature to present an original and practically useful approach to answering questions about what is better and why. Throughout, the authors advocate ‘pragmatic pluralism’, emphasizing compassion, social justice and practical wisdom alongside techniques, measures and outcomes, and maintain that healthcare demands a reflective, context sensitive approach which is cautious about the universality of claims and the scalability of improvement interventions. This accessible text effortlessly combines theory and practice with a wide range of real-world case studies, including urban poverty screening in US primary care and initiatives introduced in the UK to help underpin anti-racist practice. Across public policy, bioethics, healthcare management, social sciences and beyond, it is a must-read for students, scholars and practitioners alike. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Wellcome Trust. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1777422026-06-22T05:03:01Z Rethinking Healthcare Improvement Cribb, Alan Mitchell, Polly Entwistle, Vikki Quality improvement Public health Medical ethics Bioethics Applied philosophy Health services Clinical care Medical practice Pluralism Value-led Social policy Front line Patient satisfaction Person-centred NHS Medicare Primary care Public-private model 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::MBD Medical profession::MBDC Medical ethics and professional conduct thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTQ Ethics and moral philosophy thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBP Health systems and services thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBS Medical sociology thema EDItEUR::L Law::LN Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law::LNT Social law and Medical law::LNTM Medical and healthcare law thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine::MBNH Personal and public health / health education thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPQ Central / national / federal government::JPQB Central / national / federal government policies thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine What is ‘good’ healthcare? Can we define and deliver it, or will we simply make things better for some people and worse for others? Bringing together the fields of philosophy and healthcare quality, this open access book provides a much-needed framework for understanding and navigating the conceptual and ethical issues at the heart of healthcare improvement. Acknowledging the complexity in attempts to raise the quality of healthcare, including from different cultural and intellectual perspectives to ever-increasing costs, this book reveals the contribution philosophy can make to the provision of quality healthcare. In four clear parts, it uncovers the ethical commitments already embedded in health services and connects them with philosophical literature to present an original and practically useful approach to answering questions about what is better and why. Throughout, the authors advocate ‘pragmatic pluralism’, emphasizing compassion, social justice and practical wisdom alongside techniques, measures and outcomes, and maintain that healthcare demands a reflective, context sensitive approach which is cautious about the universality of claims and the scalability of improvement interventions. This accessible text effortlessly combines theory and practice with a wide range of real-world case studies, including urban poverty screening in US primary care and initiatives introduced in the UK to help underpin anti-racist practice. Across public policy, bioethics, healthcare management, social sciences and beyond, it is a must-read for students, scholars and practitioners alike. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Wellcome Trust. 2026-06-22T05:03:00Z 2026-06-22T05:03:00Z 2026-06-21T09:16:40Z 2026 book book ONIX_20260621T103019_9781350547148_73 https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350547155?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/114199 9781350547148 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/177742 eng open access Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Bloomsbury Academic b7fec79e-c133-4cb3-9544-88060a4d4e06 9781350547148 Bloomsbury Academic 320 London open access |
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