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G A Widdershoven

Publications and source records attributed to G A Widdershoven.

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PubMed2001

Advance directives in dementia care: from instructions to instruments.

Advance directives are often regarded as instructions to the doctor about future care. This view is problematic, in that it obliterates that decisions about treatment and care always take place in a concrete situation, and require interpretation and communication. From a hermeneutic perspective, advance directives can be regarded as instruments which do not replace interpretation and communication, but sustain joint decision-making about treatment and care, including the patient and the family in a process of meaning-making.

Advance Directives↗
PubMed1999

Care, cure and interpersonal understanding.

This article distinguishes two approaches within care theory, relating them to different views on the physician-patient relationship within philosophy of medicine. The first regards care as a skillful comportment by the care-giver, based upon intuitive insight into the needs of the care-receiver. The second regards care as a mutual endeavour, based upon openness and dialogue. The first approach resembles the interpretative model of the doctor-patient relationship; the second is parallel to the deliberative model. The two approaches within care theory and the two positions within philosophy of medicine are both expressions of a fundamental distinction between two different views of interpersonal understanding. This distinction is elaborated upon by discussing Gadamer's analysis of interpersonal understanding.

Caregivers↗