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Habilitation, Healthy Agency, and Patient-Participation

Habilitation, Healthy Agency, and Patient-Participation

Lawrence C. Becker
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 24
ISBN13: 9781466699922|ISBN10: 1466699922|EISBN13: 9781466699939
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9992-2.ch001
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Becker, Lawrence C. "Habilitation, Healthy Agency, and Patient-Participation." Promoting Patient Engagement and Participation for Effective Healthcare Reform, edited by Guendalina Graffigna, IGI Global, 2016, pp. 1-24. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9992-2.ch001

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Becker, L. C. (2016). Habilitation, Healthy Agency, and Patient-Participation. In G. Graffigna (Ed.), Promoting Patient Engagement and Participation for Effective Healthcare Reform (pp. 1-24). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9992-2.ch001

Chicago

Becker, Lawrence C. "Habilitation, Healthy Agency, and Patient-Participation." In Promoting Patient Engagement and Participation for Effective Healthcare Reform, edited by Guendalina Graffigna, 1-24. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9992-2.ch001

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Abstract

This chapter argues, on ethical grounds, that wherever possible patient-participation must be kept consistent with the level of healthy rational agency that is, or might be, available to the patient. Merely compliant patient-participation is not enough. This is also true of patient-adaptation or adjustment. Mere adaptive compliance is not enough. Accepting patient-consent, cooperation, and compliance as an adequate indication of genuine agentic participation is often hard to avoid, but such acceptance is also often inconsistent with appropriate healthcare. These conclusions follow, as a matter of empirically informed practical ethics, from an analysis of the lifelong habilitative tasks that face every human being, and the role that the patient's healthy agency plays in the development, protection, or restoration of the patient's agency itself and the patient's basic good health generally.

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