| Pleasure in medical practice. | |
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PMID: 21728071 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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It is time to challenge the issue of pleasure associated with the core of medical practice. Its importance is made clear through its opposite: unhappiness-something which affects doctors in a rather worrying way. The paper aims to provide a discussion on pleasure on reliable grounds. Plato's conception of techne is a convenient model that offers insights into the unique practice of medicine, which embraces in a single purposive action several heterogeneous dimensions. In Aristotle's Ethics, pleasure appears to play a central role for action's assessment and intensification. Pleasure is also tightly associated with the Kantian faculty of reflective judgment, which operates at the heart of clinical reasoning. Indeed, practicing medicine means to deal with the particular and the manifold, requiring clinical judgment, but also relying on embodied habitus. With Bourdieu's notion of habitus, pleasure is the mark of a happy practice, which presupposes a deep involvement in one's field. Throughout our inquiry, the question of pleasure comes to offer a critical reappraisal of real medical practice and leads to consider ethics more as a component of techne than as a separate realm of concern. |
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Jean-Christophe Weber |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-7-5 |
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Title: Medicine, health care, and philosophy Volume: - ISSN: 1572-8633 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Jul |
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Created Date: 2011-7-5 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9815900 Medline TA: Med Health Care Philos Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Institut de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur les Sciences et la Technologie, Strasbourg University, Strasbourg, France, jean-christophe.weber@chru-strasbourg.fr. |
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