Research Catalog

Title

Professional loving care : an ethical view of the healthcare sector / A. Van Heijst.

Author

Heijst, Annelies van.

Publication

Leuven : Peeters 2011.

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Description

212 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

This practice-based philosophical study presents the view that professional healthcare is not just one of the many paid professions. On the contrary, healthcare should be redefined as a modest but meaningful variant of enacted love for one's fellow human beings, practiced in an institutional context. There is a reciprocal side to it, as it is not just professionals who show loving care for their patients, residents, or clients. Those groups have feelings of gratitude, respect and affinity for the professionals, although not all of them are equally satisfied. Obviously, love should be understood in a non-romantic and non-erotic way, and its location is not the private sphere. "Professional Loving Care" is the condensed and updated version of "Menslievende zorg", originally written within the context of the Low Countries, but dealing with issues that are relevant to western healthcare systems in general. The Dutch edition was published in 2005 and by 2011 it was in its sixth reprint.

Series Statement

Ethics of care ; 2

Uniform Title

• Menslievende zorg. English
• Ethics of care v. 2.

Alternative Title

Menslievende zorg.

Subject

• Health Care Sector > ethics
• Delivery of Health Care > ethics
• Ethics, Professional
• Medical ethics

Note

• Translation of: Menslievede zorg.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-210) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9789042925205
• 9042925205

OCLC

793202922

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library