Interaction between Patient and Health Professional: Hermeneutics of Cultural Encounters

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Abstract

This article presents a theoretical view on embedded cultural thinking and action in encounters between patient and health professional. A key point of the analysis indicates that a highly efficient health sector may entail an implicit duality. On the one hand, the health professional can and often must relate pragmatically to the patient in order to solve problems and also solve them quickly, while on the other hand, the professional can be personally challenged when cultural thinking leads to conflicts or dilemmas. This means that a purely pragmatic perspective will be challenged when such conflicts occur. In the article we look into interrelated dimensions such as “culture,” “prejudice” and “meaning” in order to shed light on the presuppositions of the cultural encounter between patient and health professional. This kind of analysis will contribute to a raised awareness of what is actually – apart from pragmatic problem solving – going on in such encounters. The conceptual framework used in this article primarily draws on the German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer contrasted by a pragmatic perspective from the American philosopher Richard Rorty.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftCommunication & Medicine - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Healthcare, Ethics and Society
Vol/bind16
Udgave nummer3
Sider (fra-til)214-223
ISSN1612-1783
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2021

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