Elsevier The Human Challenge of Telemedicine: Toward Time-sensitive and Person-centered Ethics in Home Telecare (Health Industrializaton)

Product Description Telepatients using connected objects to collect time-sensitive data about their health are not neutral carriers of diagnosable symptoms. Patients are persons, or personal beings as well as co-carers, whose personal experience, history and know-how must be acknowledged in time-sensitive telecare practices. Such practices require a relational ethics, inspired by medical ethics and an ethics of virtues, focusing on vulnerability and emotional health, to oversee telecare good practices, define a new therapeutic alliance compliant with patients’ values, and reconcile the technical and human sides of telemedicine. The ethical challenges of telemedicine in chronic patients today The key features of a person-centered and relational ethics in telemedical settings The concepts of “emotional health care and “chrono-sensitivity of the “connected sick body Review An empirically-grounded and person-centred ethics focusing on telecare good practices in French chronic patients engaged in home telemonitoring and self-care management practices About the Author Philippe Bardy, Senior Lecturer of English at Paris Descartes University (France)