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Treating real people: Science and humanity
Author(s) -
Loughlin Michael,
Mercuri Mathew,
Pârvan Alexandra,
Copeland Samantha Marie,
Tonelli Mark,
Buetow Stephen
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of evaluation in clinical practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.737
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1365-2753
pISSN - 1356-1294
DOI - 10.1111/jep.13024
Subject(s) - overdiagnosis , judgement , humanity , happening , psychology , health care , clinical practice , engineering ethics , field (mathematics) , epistemology , sociology , medicine , nursing , political science , art , philosophy , law , mathematics , pathology , performance art , pure mathematics , art history , engineering
Something important is happening in applied, interdisciplinary research, particularly in the field of applied health research. The vast array of papers in this edition are evidence of a broad change in thinking across an impressive range of practice and academic areas. The problems of complexity, the rise of chronic conditions, overdiagnosis, co‐morbidity, and multi‐morbidity are serious and challenging, but we are rising to that challenge. Key conceptions regarding science, evidence, disease, clinical judgement, and health and social care are being revised and their relationships reconsidered: Boundaries are indeed being redrawn; reasoning is being made “fit for practice.” Ideas like “person‐centred care” are no longer phrases with potential to be helpful in some yet‐to‐be‐clarified way: Theorists and practitioners are working in collaboration to give them substantive import and application.