The Human Challenge of Telemedicine: Toward Time-sensitive and Person-centered Ethics in Home Telecare (Health Industrializaton)

Author: Bardy, Philippe

Brand: Elsevier

Edition: 1

ISBN: 9781785483042

Release Date: 14-12-2018

Package Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 0.8 inches

Languages: English

Binding: hardcover

Number Of Pages: 284

Details: Telepatients using connected objects to collect time-sensitive data about their health are not neutral carriers of diagnosable symptoms. Patients are persons, or personal beings as well as co-carers, whose personal experience, history and know-how must be acknowledged in time-sensitive telecare practices. Such practices require a relational ethics, inspired by medical ethics and an ethics of virtues, focusing on vulnerability and emotional health, to oversee telecare good practices, define a new therapeutic alliance compliant with patients’ values, and reconcile the technical and human sides of telemedicine. The ethical challenges of telemedicine in chronic patients today The key features of a person-centered and relational ethics in telemedical settings The concepts of “emotional health” care and “chrono-sensitivity” of the “connected” sick body