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Evidence, Emotion and Eminence: A Qualitative and Evaluative Analysis of Doctors’ Skills in Macroallocation

verfasst von: Siun Gallagher, Miles Little, Claire Hooker

Erschienen in: Health Care Analysis | Ausgabe 2/2019

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Abstract

In this analysis of the ethical dimensions of doctors’ participation in macroallocation we set out to understand the skills they use, how they are acquired, and how they influence performance of the role. Using the principles of grounded moral analysis, we conducted a semi-structured interview study with Australian doctors engaged in macroallocation. We found that they performed expertise as argument, bringing together phronetic and rhetorical skills founded on communication, strategic thinking, finance, and health data. They had made significant, purposeful efforts to gain skills for the role. Our findings challenge common assumptions about doctors’ preferences in argumentation, and reveal an unexpected commitment to practical reason. Using the ethics of Paul Ricoeur in our analysis enabled us to identify the moral meaning of doctors’ skills and learning. We concluded that Ricoeur’s ethics offers an empirically grounded matrix for ethical analysis of the doctor’s role in macroallocation that may help to establish norms for procedure.

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Titel: Evidence, Emotion and Eminence: A Qualitative and Evaluative Analysis of Doctors’ Skills in Macroallocation
verfasst von: Siun Gallagher
Miles Little
Claire Hooker
Publikationsdatum: 24.03.2018
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Health Care Analysis / Ausgabe 2/2019
Print ISSN: 1065-3058
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-3394
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10728-018-0356-z

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