Without Compassion, There Is No Healthcare: Leading with Care in a Technological Age

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Synopsis
New technologies are transforming healthcare work and changing how patients interact with healthcare providers. As artificial intelligence systems, robotics, and data analytics become more sophisticated, some clinical tasks will become obsolete and others will be reconfigured. While it is not possible to predict these developments precisely, it is important to understand their inevitability and to prepare for the changes that lie ahead. Without Compassion, There Is No Healthcare argues that compassion must be upheld as the bedrock and guiding purpose of healthcare work. Emerging technologies have the potential to subvert this purpose but also to enable and expand it, creating new conduits for compassionate care. Cultivating these benefits and guarding against potential threats will require vigilance and determination from healthcare providers, educators, leaders, patients, and advocates. The contributors to this book show the way forward, bringing a diverse range of expertise to confront these challenges. Avoiding platitudes and simple dichotomies, they examine what compassion in healthcare means and how it can be practised, now and in the uncertain future. Without Compassion, There Is No Healthcare is a call to action. Drawing together a decade of evidence and insight generated by a community of leading scholars and practitioners committed to promoting compassionate care, it offers steady principles and practices to steer the way through times of technological change.
Copyright:
2020

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Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9780228004622
Related ISBNs:
9780228003779, 9780228004615, 9780228003762
Publisher:
McGill-Queen's University Press
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Copyrighted By:
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Medicine
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Brian D. Hodges
Edited by:
Gail Paech
Edited by:
Jocelyn Bennett

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