Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Reconsidering Patient Centred Care by Alison Pilnick Through the detailed examination of a large corpus of healthcare interactions collected from a range of settings over a 25 year period, Pilnick illustrates the ways in which there are good organisational and interactional reasons for what may look from a PCC perspective like bad healthcare practice. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Winner of the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2023In a major contribution to the sociology of medicine, Alison Pilnick shifts the terms of the debate around patient centred care (PCC). PCC is typically framed as a moral imperative, necessary to prevent a return to the outmoded medical paternalism of the past. However, empirical research repeatedly fails to show a clear link between the adoption of PCC and improvement in health outcomes. These results are largely considered as professional failings, to be remediated through better training in PCC; as a result empirical research is largely focused on the extent to which practice does not live up to checklists of PCC criteria.Through the detailed examination of a large corpus of healthcare interactions collected from a range of settings over a 25 year period, Pilnick illustrates the ways in which there are good organisational and interactional reasons for what may look from a PCC perspective like bad healthcare practice. Conceptualisations of PCC typically foreground the importance of patient autonomy, to be exercised through choice and control; the analysis presented here highlights the problems with these consumerist underpinnings of PCC, and shows how the interactional consequence of attempting to enact them is often the sidelining of medical expertise that patients want or need.Arguing that reform would be better directed at considering how this expertise can be re-centred in contemporary healthcare, the analysis illustrates why values-driven policy can be problematic in practice, and points to the importance of using analyses of healthcare interaction to inform healthcare policy making from the outset, rather than simply as a barometer of its success. Author Biography Alison Pilnick is Professor of Language, Medicine and Society in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Nottingham. She is a sociologist of health and illness with a specific interest in communication in health and social care. She has worked with a wide range of professionals across a diverse range of care settings both in the UK and overseas, using audio and video recordings to examine interactions and to inform and develop communication skills training. This work has been funded by bodies including the British Academy, ESRC and NIHR. She has published 4 books and over 60 journal articles spanning the fields of sociology, health and medicine, communication studies and medical education. In 2015 she was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in recognition of her work in healthcare. Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1. What is Patient Centred Care? Chapter 2. Patient Centred Care in Practice Chapter 3. On good interactional reasons for bad healthcare practice Chapter 4. Rehabilitating medical expertise for the 21st Century Chapter 5. Moving beyond Patient Centred Care? Review Reconsidering Patient Centred Care … is essential reading … it provides a convincing, empirically grounded assessment of patient centered care, which is being evaluated and judged both in relation to the logics and imperatives of real-life interaction in medical encounters and with reference to the societal purpose and function of medicine in the first place. -- Melisa Stevanovic * Symbolic Interaction *The book would be enjoyable and useful to clinicians and policymakers, as well as sociologists. It shows the problems with widespread assumptions about what happens in the medical encounter. Such assumptions are taken as the starting point of policy interventions (and indeed sociological analyses) into many pressing issues and the book therefore successfully commends conversation analysis as a method for interrogating PCC by starting, not ending, with study of interaction itself. -- Eleanor Kashouris, Kashouris, E. (2023), Reconsidering patient centred care: Between autonomy and abandonment. By Pilnick, Alison, Emerald. 2022. 168pp. £65 (hbck). ISBN: 9781800717442. Sociol Health Illn, 45: 1393-1394. 1111/1467-9566.13646The array of topics and extracts in this 5-chapter monograph shows how challenging PCC is for healthcare professionals to define and enact, particularly when PCC is competing with other institutional goals and service delivery constraints […] The book is potentially of interest to anyone involved in researching, developing, teaching or implementing healthcare policy and practice and may particularly appeal to clinical academics. -- Avril Nicoll, Nicoll, A. (2023), Reconsidering patient centred care: Between autonomy and abandonment. By Pilnick, A. Bingley, Emerald Publishing Limited. 2022. pp. 168. £65.00 (hardback). ISBN: 9781800717442. Sociol Health Illn, 45: 1395-1396. 1111/1467-9566.13677This is a pathbreaking book in its use of conversation analysis to revisit core issues in medical sociology [...] It shows a deep knowledge of the history of debates in the field and a breadth of scholarship that situates conversation analysis firmly as a sociological practice. [...] This book clearly shows the value of detailed, painstaking and thorough empirical work for challenging self-defined assumptions of virtuous practice. It needs to be read by anyone with an interest in the communication skills of health professionals. -- Robert Dingwall, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Nottingham Trent University Details ISBN180071744X Author Alison Pilnick Short Title Reconsidering Patient Centred Care Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 180071744X ISBN-13 9781800717442 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2022-08-23 Subtitle Between Autonomy and Abandonment Publisher Emerald Publishing Limited Imprint Emerald Publishing Limited Place of Publication Bingley Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2022-08-23 NZ Release Date 2022-08-23 UK Release Date 2022-08-23 Pages 168 Alternative 9781800717435 DEWEY 610.696 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! 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