Radical liberal values-based practice.

Thornton, Tim orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-0137-1554 (2011) Radical liberal values-based practice. Journal Of Evaluation In Clinical Practice, 17 (5). pp. 988-91. ISSN 1365-2753

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2753.2011.01733.x

Abstract

Values based practice is a radical view of the place of values in medicine which develops from a philosophical analysis of values, illness and the role of ethical principles. It denies two attractive and traditional views of medicine: that diagnosis is a merely factual matter and that the values that should guide treatment and management can be codified in principles. But it goes further in the adoption of a radical liberal view: that right or good outcome should be replaced by right process. I describe each of these three claims but caution against the third.


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