Exploring Arthur Kleinman’s concept of “care as a moral experience”
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Arthur Kleinman proposes the concept of care as a moral experience after years of caring for his wife with Alzheimer’s until her death. Kleinman believes that similarly caring experiences of healthcare staff with patients can free them from the narrow of technical perspectives of professionalism that are influenced by the educational system. In addition, the structural changes in the current health system, such as health services becoming a profit-and-loss business, commercial medicine that are promoting the attitude of healthcare staff towards patients as customers, and the bureaucratic system that emphasizes paperwork, reports and a lot of quality indicators are degrading the dignity of health care workers. Caring is a tool to lead healthcare staff to moral experiences. It will promote them growth into a self-fulfillment human being and bring the meaning of caring work back into the health system.
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