Hope for health and health care

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• 作者：William E. Stempsey (1) (2)
  
  1. Department of Philosophy ; College of the Holy Cross ; 1 College Street ; Worcester ; MA ; 01610 ; USA
  2. Department of Psychiatry ; University of Massachusetts Medical School ; Worcester ; MA ; USA
  
• 关键词：Hope ; Health care ; Medicine ; Philosophy ; Ernst Bloch ; Gabriel Marcel ; Thomas Aquinas
• 刊名：Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：February 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：18
• 期：1
• 页码：41-49
• 全文大小：174 KB
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• 刊物类别：Medicine
• 刊物主题：Medicine & Public Health
  Theory of Medicine and Bioethics
  Medical Law
  Ethics
  History of Medicine
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1572-8633

文摘

Virtually all activities of health care are motivated at some level by hope. Patients hope for a cure; for relief from pain; for a return home. Physicians hope to prevent illness in their patients; to make the correct diagnosis when illness presents itself; that their prescribed treatments will be effective. Researchers hope to learn more about the causes of illness; to discover new and more effective treatments; to understand how treatments work. Ultimately, all who work in health care hope to offer their patients hope. In this paper, I offer a brief analysis of hope, considering the definitions of Hobbes, Locke, Hume and Thomas Aquinas. I then differentiate shallow and deep hope and show how hope in health care can remain shallow. Next, I explore what a philosophy of deep hope in health care might look like, drawing important points from Ernst Bloch and Gabriel Marcel. Finally, I suggest some implications of this philosophy of hope for patients, physicians, and researchers.