Telepatients using connected objects to collect time-sensitive data about their health are not neutral carriers of diagnosable symptoms. Patients are persons, or personal beings as well as co-carers, whose personal experience, history and know-how must be acknowledged in time-sensitive telecare practices. Such practices require a relational ethics, inspired by medical ethics and an ethics of virtues, focusing on vulnerability and emotional health, to oversee telecare good practices, define a new therapeutic alliance compliant with patients’ values, and reconcile the technical and human sides of telemedicine.
| ISBN: | 9781785483042 |
| Publication date: | 26th November 2018 |
| Author: | Philippe (Senior Lecturer of English, Paris Descartes University, France) Bardy |
| Publisher: | ISTE Press Ltd - Elsevier Inc |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 284 pages |
| Genres: |
Telemedicine Medical ethics and professional conduct |