Complex Clinical Reasoning

Why should we help people who are ill? The ethics of disease with Prof. Bjørn Hofmann

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This podcast episode covers topic areas such as:

  • What we mean when we say ‘disease’?
  • Disease as both a concept and phenomena 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 called 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 an 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

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Contributed by: Complex Clinical Reasoning
Authored by: Bjorn Hofmann
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Last updated: 28 November 2023
First contributed: 30 March 2023
Audience access level: Full user

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