The Logic of Care: Health and the Problem of Patient Choice

The Judgment of Care: Health and the Problem of Patient Choice Books

The Logic of Care: Health and the Problem of Patient Choice

  • ISBN13: 9780415453431
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What is excellent care? In this innovative and compelling book, Annemarie Mol argues that excellent care has small to do with ‘patient choice’ and, therefore, making more opportunities for patient choice will not improve health care.

Although it is possible to handle people who seek professional help as customers or citizens, Mol argues that this undermines ways of thought and acting crucial to health care. Illustrating the discussion with examples from diabetes clinics and diabetes self care, the book presents the ‘judgment of care’ in a step by step contrast with the ‘judgment of choice’. She concludes that excellent care is not a matter of making well argued individual choices but is something that grows out of collaborative and continuing attempts to attune knowledge and technologies to diseased bodies and complex lives.

Mol does not criticise the practices she encountered in her field work as messy or ad hoc, but makes explicit what it is that motivates them: an intriguing combination of adaptability and perseverance. The Judgment of Care: Health and the problem of patient choice is crucial reading for all those interested in the theory and do of care, including sociologists, anthropologists and health care professionals. It will also converse in to policymakers and become a valuable source of inspiration for patient activists.

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