Professor of Applied Philosophy at the University of West London (UWL) contributes to ground-breaking academic volume on Philosophical Health
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Michael Loughlin, Course Director of the MSc in Person-Centred Health and Social Care at the School of Biomedical Sciences (SBS) at the University of West London, recently contributed to the academic volume ‘Philosophical Health: Thinking as a Way of Healing.’ Published by Bloomsbury, the book examines the theory and practice of philosophical health in contemporary contexts of care.
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Professor Loughlin’s chapter expresses ideas found in his 2023 book, ‘The Philosophy of Person-Centred Healthcare’, co-authored with the philosopher and patient advocate Dr Derek Mitchell. He is Co-director of the European Institute for Person-Centred Health & Social Care at UWL, which focuses on academic research informing a move away from current approaches to the management of chronic illness and towards newer models of care that are personalised, integrated and contextualised.
Person-centred healthcare should not be treated as an ‘ethical add-on’ to medical provisions, which is how most policymakers currently treat it. It represents a fundamental revision of our thinking about the relationship between medicine, health and social care,”
said Professor Loughlin.
The research covered in the book resulted in Professor Loughlin being invited to Brazil to participate in a lecture tour. This included giving a keynote address to an international conference on AI in health and social care at the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos in Sau Leopoldo. He also met with representatives of the state health service in Porto Alegre.
Person-centred care is very much a topic of interest right now to a wide range of practitioners, academics and policy makers,”
he explained.
Professor Loughlin is also editor-in-chief of the ‘Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice’, an international journal which promotes the evaluation and development of clinical practice across medicine, nursing and the allied health professions.
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