Title |
Discourse on medicine: meditative and calculative approaches to ethics from an international perspective
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Published in |
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, November 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1747-5341-9-18 |
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Authors |
David Cruise Malloy, Ronald Martin, Thomas Hadjistavropoulos, Peilai Liu, Elizabeth Fahey McCarthy, Ilhyeok Park, N Shalani, Masaaki Murakami, Suchat Paholpak |
Abstract |
Heidegger's two modes of thinking, calculative and meditative, were used as the thematic basis for this qualitative study of physicians from seven countries (Canada, China, India, Ireland, Japan, Korea, & Thailand). Focus groups were conducted in each country with 69 physicians who cared for the elderly. Results suggest that physicians perceived ethical issues primarily through the lens of calculative thinking (76%) with emphasis on economic concerns. Meditative responses represented 24% of the statements and were mostly generated by Canadian physicians whose patients typically were not faced with economic barriers to treatment due to Canada's universal health care system. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United Kingdom | 3 | 60% |
United States | 1 | 20% |
Unknown | 1 | 20% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Scientists | 3 | 60% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 40% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Canada | 1 | 4% |
Unknown | 27 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Researcher | 11 | 39% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 3 | 11% |
Student > Master | 2 | 7% |
Lecturer | 1 | 4% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 1 | 4% |
Other | 4 | 14% |
Unknown | 6 | 21% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Medicine and Dentistry | 8 | 29% |
Social Sciences | 5 | 18% |
Psychology | 3 | 11% |
Immunology and Microbiology | 1 | 4% |
Philosophy | 1 | 4% |
Other | 2 | 7% |
Unknown | 8 | 29% |