Tuesday, August 14, 2012

500 Hats: Exploring the Challenges of Boundary and Community-Reflections on Professionalization

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22886155


 2012 Aug 11. [Epub ahead of print]

500 Hats: Exploring the Challenges of Boundary and Community-Reflections on Professionalization.

Source

University Health Network, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute/UHN, University Centre, 550 University Avenue, Room N7-063, Toronto, ON, M5G 2A2, Canada, Ann.heesters@uhn.ca.

Abstract

I argue that it is possible to reframe the current debates over professionalization in a way that can account for disagreement without insisting that its advocates and opponents are adversaries. Giles Scofield, and critics like him, may be understood as engaging in the sort of theoretical disagreement that is an inescapable and vital part of our practice. The field could profit from the work of legal theorist Ronald Dworkin who has long argued that people of good will and great competence need not share foundational assumptions. They may, instead, be advancing rival interpretations of what the practice of healthcare ethics (PHE) requires.



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