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Essay / The Logic of Care by Annemarie Mol - 1306
IntroductionThe Logic of Care is a philosophical book. The book is written from the perspective of a patient. It is therefore easy to understand and read. This journal is written for people working in the healthcare sector and the patient movement. It is important that healthcare professionals start thinking about the choices patients need to make. Content of the book The author of the book “The logic of care” is Annemarie Mol. Mol is a Dutch ethnographer and philosopher. Mol describes how the ideal of choice clashes with the reality of living with a sick body. His book was published in 2006. The Logic of Care is a philosophical book, with applications and examples from the healthcare sector. The book explores what good care is. The writer seeks an alternative to the popular belief that people need free choice to be able to lead a good life. Over four years, the writer collected all the material for the book through field work in the field of health. The material is based on interviews with nurses, internists and diabetic patients. The author observed how daily diabetes practice works. Dialogues and gestures are detected. All these experiences were translated into the words of the writer. The writer wrote especially for the patients' movement. Additionally, she has written for people working in healthcare, who struggle with the logic of choice. Furthermore, the writer attempts to make room for stories in the political dialogue by using the logic of care. The book makes a comparison between the logic of care and the logic of choice. The logic of care is the central theme of the book. While the other, the logic of choice, makes its point of contrast. The logic of choice is considered something good in Western philosophy......amidst papers, diseases, medical professionals, knowledge and technological artifacts. His book is an invitation to experts and patients to rise to the occasion of good care. The logic of choice is increasingly imposed on health care, primarily through legalization and economization. Laws assume that people make choices. For example, the BIG Act states that a physician provides information to a patient and the patient makes a choice based on the information provided by the physician. But the reason for choosing a particular treatment is not clear. Because the patient wants this treatment? But how can a patient know what he wants, when the logic of care is not predictable and uncertain? It is important that everyone thinks about this. This book provides a lot of information and definitely makes you think. The book can definitely provide more discussion in the field of healthcare.