TY - JOUR
T1 - Lifeworld-led healthcare
T2 - Revisiting a humanising philosophy that integrates emerging trends
AU - Todres, Les
AU - Galvin, Kathleen
AU - Dahlberg, Karin
PY - 2006/7/18
Y1 - 2006/7/18
N2 - In this paper, we describe the value and philosophy of lifeworld-led care. Our purpose is to give a philosophically coherent foundation for lifeworld-led care and its core value as a humanising force that moderates technological progress. We begin by indicating the timeliness of these concerns within the current context of citizen-oriented, participative approaches to healthcare. We believe that this context is in need of a deepening philosophy if it is not to succumb to the discourses of mere consumerism. We thus revisit the potential of Husserl's notion of the lifeworld and how lifeworld-led care could provide important ideas and values that are central to the humanisation of healthcare practice. This framework provides a synthesis of the main arguments of the paper and is finally expressed in a model of lifeworld-led care that includes its core value, core perspectives, relevant indicative methodologies and main benefits. The model is offered as a potentially broad-based approach for integrating many existing practices and trends. In the spirit of Husserl's interest in both commonality and variation, we highlight the central, less contestable foundations of lifeworld-led care, without constraining the possible varieties of confluent practices.
AB - In this paper, we describe the value and philosophy of lifeworld-led care. Our purpose is to give a philosophically coherent foundation for lifeworld-led care and its core value as a humanising force that moderates technological progress. We begin by indicating the timeliness of these concerns within the current context of citizen-oriented, participative approaches to healthcare. We believe that this context is in need of a deepening philosophy if it is not to succumb to the discourses of mere consumerism. We thus revisit the potential of Husserl's notion of the lifeworld and how lifeworld-led care could provide important ideas and values that are central to the humanisation of healthcare practice. This framework provides a synthesis of the main arguments of the paper and is finally expressed in a model of lifeworld-led care that includes its core value, core perspectives, relevant indicative methodologies and main benefits. The model is offered as a potentially broad-based approach for integrating many existing practices and trends. In the spirit of Husserl's interest in both commonality and variation, we highlight the central, less contestable foundations of lifeworld-led care, without constraining the possible varieties of confluent practices.
KW - Humanisation of healthcare
KW - Husserl
KW - Integrative model
KW - Lifeworld-led care
KW - Phenomenology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33846546559&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11019-006-9012-8
DO - 10.1007/s11019-006-9012-8
M3 - Article
C2 - 16847724
AN - SCOPUS:33846546559
SN - 1386-7423
VL - 10
SP - 53
EP - 63
JO - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
JF - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
IS - 1
ER -