A brief history of empowerment: response to discussion with Julianne Cheek

Autor:	Michael Traynor
Rok vydání:	2003
Předmět:	business.industry Modernity media_common.quotation_subject Authoritarianism Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Gender studies Humanism Public relations Ideal (ethics) Compliance (psychology) Paternalism Health care Sociology business Empowerment Care Planning media_common
Zdroj:	Primary Health Care Research and Development. 4:129-136
ISSN:	1477-1128 1463-4236
DOI:	10.1191/1463423603pc141oa
Popis:	Empowerment has gained prominence in health care as an ideal to underpin practitioner – client/patient relationships. Its advocates see it as preferable to paternalistic or authoritarian models and practices, partly because of the humanistic values that shape it and partly because it is believed to improve efficiency in health care delivery because it makes compliance to treatment regimes and to health promoting advice more likely. However, as Cheek notes in her paper, there are plenty of situations in which it is difficult to find anything approaching empowerment in practice. This paper, which develops Cheek's arguments further, examines some of the historical and philosophical origins of empowerment, traces its trajectory through post-World War II societies into health and welfare values and finally asks whether nurses and other health care workers face significant contradictions if they are to take seriously the call to ‘empower’ their patients.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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