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Patients’ participation in decision-making in the medical field – ‘projectification’ of patients in a neoliberal framed healthcare system

Glasdam, Stinne LU orcid ; Øye, Christine and Thryssøe, Lars (2015) In Nursing Philosophy 16(4). p.226-238
Abstract
This article focuses on patients’ participation in decision-making in meetings

with healthcare professionals in a healthcare system, based on neoliberal

regulations and ideas.Drawing on two constructed empirical cases,

primarily from the perspective of patients, this article analyses and discusses the clinical practice around decision-making meetings within a

Foucauldian perspective. Patients’ participation in decision-making can

be seen as an offshoot of respect for patient autonomy. A treatment must

be chosen, when patients consult physicians. From the perspective of

patients, there is a tendency for healthcare professionals to supply the

patients with the... (More)
This article focuses on patients’ participation in decision-making in meetings

with healthcare professionals in a healthcare system, based on neoliberal

regulations and ideas.Drawing on two constructed empirical cases,

primarily from the perspective of patients, this article analyses and discusses the clinical practice around decision-making meetings within a

Foucauldian perspective. Patients’ participation in decision-making can

be seen as an offshoot of respect for patient autonomy. A treatment must

be chosen, when patients consult physicians. From the perspective of

patients, there is a tendency for healthcare professionals to supply the

patients with the information that they think are necessary for them to

make their own decision. But patients do not always want to be a ‘customer’ in the healthcare system; they want to be a patient, consulting an expert for help and advice,which creates resistance to some parts of the decision-making process. Both professionals and patients are subject to the structural frame of the medical field, formed of both neoliberal framework and medical logic. The decision-making competence in relation to the choice of treatment is placed away from the professionals and seen as belonging to the patient. A‘projectification’ of the patient occurs, whereby the patient becomes responsible for his/her choices in treatment and care and the professionals support him/her with knowledge, preferences, and alternative views, out of which he/she must make his/her own choices, and the responsibility for those choices now and in the future. At the same time, there is a tendency towards de-professionalization. In that light, participation of patients in decision-making can be regarded as a tacit governmentality strategy that shapes the location of responsibility between individual and society, and independent patients and healthcare professionals, despite the basically desirable, appropriate, and necessary idea of involving patients in their own situations from a humanistic perspective. (Less)
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particitation, patient, decision-making, medical field, neoliberal frame.
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Nursing Philosophy
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16
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4
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226 - 238
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Wiley-Blackwell
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1466-7681
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10.1111/nup.12092
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English
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  abstract     = {{This article focuses on patients’ participation in decision-making in meetings<br/><br>
with healthcare professionals in a healthcare system, based on neoliberal<br/><br>
regulations and ideas.Drawing on two constructed empirical cases,<br/><br>
primarily from the perspective of patients, this article analyses and discusses the clinical practice around decision-making meetings within a<br/><br>
Foucauldian perspective. Patients’ participation in decision-making can<br/><br>
be seen as an offshoot of respect for patient autonomy. A treatment must<br/><br>
be chosen, when patients consult physicians. From the perspective of<br/><br>
patients, there is a tendency for healthcare professionals to supply the<br/><br>
patients with the information that they think are necessary for them to<br/><br>
make their own decision. But patients do not always want to be a ‘customer’ in the healthcare system; they want to be a patient, consulting an expert for help and advice,which creates resistance to some parts of the decision-making process. Both professionals and patients are subject to the structural frame of the medical field, formed of both neoliberal framework and medical logic. The decision-making competence in relation to the choice of treatment is placed away from the professionals and seen as belonging to the patient. A‘projectification’ of the patient occurs, whereby the patient becomes responsible for his/her choices in treatment and care and the professionals support him/her with knowledge, preferences, and alternative views, out of which he/she must make his/her own choices, and the responsibility for those choices now and in the future. At the same time, there is a tendency towards de-professionalization. In that light, participation of patients in decision-making can be regarded as a tacit governmentality strategy that shapes the location of responsibility between individual and society, and independent patients and healthcare professionals, despite the basically desirable, appropriate, and necessary idea of involving patients in their own situations from a humanistic perspective.}},
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  title        = {{Patients’ participation in decision-making in the medical field – ‘projectification’ of patients in a neoliberal framed healthcare system}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/1385281/8521336.pdf}},
  doi          = {{10.1111/nup.12092}},
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