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Medical Conspiracy Theories
Medical conspiracy theories have existed for a long time, but they have become more pronounced in recent times. This represents a major obstacle to...
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A survey and critical analysis of the teaching of medical ethics in UK medical schools
This article surveys and analyses the reflections on medical ethics teaching by colleagues teaching in United Kingdom (UK) medical schools in the...
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Models of Medical Clinical Practice: A Comparative Discussion of Secular and Religious Bioethics
This chapter discusses models of clinical practice through a comparative discussion of secular and religious bioethics and the various ways in...
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Science as a Profession: And Its Responsibility
Scientific responsibility has changed with the successful professionalization of science. Today, science is a privileged profession, one with a...
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The Medical Humanities
This chapter introduces the concept of medical humanities and explains how the choice of the term “medical humanities” is important because there is...
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Questionable research practices of medical and dental faculty in Pakistan – a confession
PurposeIntellectual honesty and integrity are the cornerstones of conducting any form of research. Over the last few years, scholars have shown great...
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Hermeneutics and Medical Ethics
As I have continuously stressed in this work medicine is not to be viewed as merely an applied science but as a unique form of human practice....
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Evaluating emotions in medical practice: a critical examination of ‘clinical detachment’ and emotional attunement in orthopaedic surgery
In this article I propose to reframe debates about ideals of emotion in medicine, abandoning the current binary setup of this debate as one between...
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Normality in medicine: an empirical elucidation
BackgroundNormality is both a descriptive and a normative concept. Undoubtedly, the normal often operates normatively as an exclusionary tool of...
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Science as a counter to the erosion of truth in society
The role of scientific values has taken on new urgency with recent changes in the politics of Western societies. The threat is the erosion of the...
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Consumed by prestige: the mouth, consumerism and the dental profession
Commercialisation and consumerism have had lasting and profound effects upon the nature of oral health and how dental services are provided. The...
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Possibilities and paradoxes in medicine: love of order, loveless order and the order of love
We have a desire to discover and create order, and our constitution, including our rational faculties, indicates that we are predisposed for such...
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“And What Do You Think, as a Professional?”: On Personal and Professional Responsibility in Business
Apart from their responsibility to serve the goals of their organization, employees also have a personal and professional responsibility to work...
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On Configurations of Knowledge in Engineering
This chapter presents a multi-contextual framework for engineering knowledge that serves to highlight how engineering knowledge is configured in...
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The ethics of machine learning-based clinical decision support: an analysis through the lens of professionalisation theory
BackgroundMachine learning-based clinical decision support systems (ML_CDSS) are increasingly employed in various sectors of health care aiming at...
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Breaking Out of the Cocoon: Whistleblowing Opportunities Under Conditions of Normalized Wrongdoing
Research in sociology and organization studies has consistently documented the tendency for organizations to develop wrongdoing practices that are at...
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Forgetting how we ate: personalised nutrition and the strategic uses of history
Personalised nutrition (PN) has emerged over the past twenty years as a promising area of research in the postgenomic era and has been popularized as...
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Experts by Experience, Demedicalization and the Emergence of Alternative Approaches to Mental Health Care: Gaining Autonomy & Medication Management (GAM) in Brazil
This chapter addresses an alternative mental health care strategy to the hegemonic medicalizing logic: Gaining Autonomy & Medication Management (GAM)...
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Vitalist Arguments in the Struggle for Human (Im)Perfection: The Debate Between Biologists and Theologians in the 1960s–1980s
In this chapter, I explore and offer critical reflections on the widespread practice of attributing negative value to “vital forces” in debates on...
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Quintipartite Method and World-Disclosure
Here, I present my method for doing phenomenological sociology. We begin with novel phenomenological investigations and develop our concepts. We move...