Trust and truth: Uncertainty in health care practice

Tyreman, S (2015) Trust and truth: Uncertainty in health care practice. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 21. pp. 470-478.

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Abstract

Uncertainty is the ubiquitous presence across health care. It is usually understood in terms of decision making, 'knowing' the correct diagnosis or understanding how the human body works. Using the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Georges Canguilhem and Tim Ingold, I outline a story of journeying and habitation, and argue that while uncertainty for practitioners may be about enhancing theoretical knowledge, for patients it is about knowing how to act in a taken-for-granted and largely unconscious way in a world that has become uncertain, and in which the main tool of action, the human body, no longer functions with the certainty it once had. In this situation, the role of the practitioner is first and foremost to recognize the uncertainty that has emerged in the patient's 'habitation' and to reassure them by enabling them to have a new or restored confidence in their body so that they can act with certainty. © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Article,Decision Making,Humans,Philosophy, Medical,Physician-Patient Relations,Trust,aporia,clinical practice,confusion (uncertainty),consultation,cynefin,decision making,doctor patient relation,habitation,health care practice,human,knowledge,medical care
Depositing User:	Dr Hilary Abbey
Date Deposited:	21 Dec 2020 13:01
Last Modified:	26 Sep 2023 13:16
URI:	https://hsu.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/20

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