The overdiagnosis of what? On the relationship between the concepts of overdiagnosis, disease, and diagnosisMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy - Tập 20 - Trang 453-464 - 2017
Bjørn Hofmann
Overdiagnosis and disease are related concepts. Widened conceptions of disease increase overdiagnosis and vice versa. This is partly because there is a close and complex relationship between disease and overdiagnosis. In order to address the problems with overdiagnosis, we may benefit from a closer understanding this relationship. Accordingly, the objective of this article is to elucidate the rela...... hiện toàn bộ
Systemising triage: COVID-19 guidelines and their underlying theories of distributive justiceMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy - Tập 25 - Trang 703-714 - 2022
Lukas J. Meier
The COVID-19 pandemic has been overwhelming public health-care systems around the world. With demand exceeding the availability of medical resources in several regions, hospitals have been forced to invoke triage. To ensure that this difficult task proceeds in a fair and organised manner, governments scrambled experts to draft triage guidelines under enormous time pressure. Although there are simi...... hiện toàn bộ
Book ReviewsMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy - Tập 22 - Trang 159-162 - 2018
Péter Kakuk
Dying as an issue of public concern: cultural scripts on palliative care in SwedenMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy - Tập 24 - Trang 507-516 - 2021
Axel Agren, Ann-Charlotte Nedlund, Elisabet Cedersund, Barbro Krevers
In Sweden, palliative care has, over the past decades, been object to policies and guidelines with focus on how to achieve “good palliative care”. The aim of this study has been to analyse how experts make sense of the development and the current state of palliative care. Departing from this aim, focus has been on identifying how personal experiences of ‘the self’ are intertwined with culturally a...... hiện toàn bộ