How Standards will Degrade the Art of Medicine

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Abstract

The paper is dealing with the problematic positioning of the whole health care system towards the concept of standard. There is a constant quest for standards, and a prediction of how everyday language gradually will disappear. It is the assumption and conjecture of this paper that as we outdo everyday language from our communication in the system we lose major part of meaning-construction concerning health and life of the patient/citizen. It is the normative and ethical aim of the discussion to frame how human factors are terminated as standards and bodies as machines replaces everyday language and bodies as carrier of health. Hans Georg Gadamer has led me on the way through inspiring essays on the Enigma of Health.
Translated title of the contributionHvorledes standardisering vil undergrave koncepter i lægekunsten
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationContext Sensitive Health Informatics. Human and Sociotechnical Approaches : Human and Sociotechnical Approaches
EditorsMarie-Cathrine Beuscart-Zephir, Monique Jaspers, Graig Kuziemsky, Christian Nøhr, Jos Aarts
Number of pages6
Volume194
Place of PublicationAmsterdam
PublisherIOS Press
Publication date17 Aug 2013
Pages29-34
ISBN (Print)978-1-61499-292-9
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-61499-293-6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 17 Aug 2013
EventInternational Conference on Context Sensitive Health Informatics, CSHI: Human and Sociotechnical approaches - Copenhagen, Denmark
Duration: 17 Aug 201318 Aug 2013

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Context Sensitive Health Informatics, CSHI
Country/TerritoryDenmark
CityCopenhagen
Period17/08/201318/08/2013
SeriesStudies in Health Technology and Informatics
Volume194
ISSN0926-9630

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