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Why should we help people who are ill? The ethics of disease with Prof. Bjørn Hofmann
This podcast episode covers topic areas such as:
- what we mean when we say ‘disease’
- disease as both a concept and phenomenon and how the concept of disease provides us with knowledge and guides our actions
- disease from a biological perspective, the experience of disease which we term illness, and the societal perspective we call sickness
- how these perspectives interact and how they might at times be in conflict with each other
- considering disease as an experienced phenomenon with a scientific description and a moral imperative
- the moral functions, and why are they of great importance to patients and us as health professionals
- how the science and the ethics of disease relate
Resource details
| Contributed by: | Complex Clinical Reasoning |
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| Licence: | More information on licences |
| Last updated: | 14 November 2024 |
| First contributed: | 30 March 2023 |
| Audience access level: | Full user |
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