Author: Oliver Quick File Type: pdf Systematically improving patient safety is of the utmost importance, but it is also an extremely complex and challenging task. This illuminating study evaluates the role of professionalism, regulation and law in seeking to improve safety, arguing that the medical dominance model is ill-suited to this aim, which instead requires a patient-centred vision of professionalism. It brings together literatures on professions, regulation and trust, while examining the different legal mechanisms for responding to patient safety events. Oliver Quick includes an examination in areas of law which have received little attention in this context, such as health and safety law, and coronial law, and contends in particular that the active involvement of patients in their own treatment is fundamental to ensuring their safety.

Author: Ted Cohen File Type: pdf In Thinking of Others, Ted Cohen argues that the ability to imagine oneself as another person is an indispensable human capacity--as essential to moral awareness as it is to literary appreciation--and that this talent for identification is the same as the talent for metaphor. To be able to see oneself as someone else, whether the someone else is a real person or a fictional character, is to exercise the ability to deal with metaphor and other figurative language. The underlying faculty, Cohen argues, is the same--simply the ability to think of one thing as another when it plainly is not.In an engaging style, Cohen explores this idea by examining various occasions for identifying with others, including reading fiction, enjoying sports, making moral arguments, estimating ones future self, and imagining how one appears to others. Using many literary examples, Cohen argues that we can engage with fictional characters just as intensely as we do with real people, and he looks at some of the ways literature itself takes up the question of interpersonal identification and understanding.An original meditation on the necessity of imagination to moral and aesthetic life, Thinking of Others is an important contribution to philosophy and literary theory.ReviewTed Cohens little philosophical essay on how metaphor gets us to think of others was tremendous. (James Wood NewYorker.com )This is really philosophy at its best clearly written and free from jargon, sophisticated yet unpretentious, and highly engaging. (Jeanette Bicknell Philosophy in Review )Cohen has given us, in wonderfully readable and analytically acute form, an unforgettable study of a complexly interwoven set of linguistic, perceptual, and imaginative abilities that not only make us who we are, but make us who we are together. (Garry L. Hagberg Mind )Ted Cohens work on metaphor is well known in the profession, so it comes as no surprise to us that he has now written a splendid book on the subject. (Peter Kivy Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism )The important, intriguing subject of this small book by Cohen--ones capacity to understand others--is full of perplexing puzzles. Through careful analysis of interesting examples, Cohen makes readers wonder about some of the major impasses in mutual understanding between people with different religious perspectives, with different racial and social experiences, and even with allegiances to different baseball teams. (S.A. Mason Choice )[W]hy not invest in Cohens book? I assure you it will return handsome dividends, even in the present economy. (Peter Kivy Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism ) ReviewTed Cohens little philosophical essay on how metaphor gets us to think of others was tremendous. (James Wood NewYorker.com )This is really philosophy at its best clearly written and free from jargon, sophisticated yet unpretentious, and highly engaging. (Jeanette Bicknell Philosophy in Review )Cohen has given us, in wonderfully readable and analytically acute form, an unforgettable study of a complexly interwoven set of linguistic, perceptual, and imaginative abilities that not only make us who we are, but make us who we are together. (Garry L. Hagberg Mind )Ted Cohens work on metaphor is well known in the profession, so it comes as no surprise to us that he has now written a splendid book on the subject. (Peter Kivy Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism )The important, intriguing subject of this small book by Cohen--ones capacity to understand others--is full of perplexing puzzles. Through careful analysis of interesting examples, Cohen makes readers wonder about some of the major impasses in mutual understanding between people with different religious perspectives, with different racial and social experiences, and even with allegiances to different baseball teams. (S.A. Mason Choice )[W]hy not invest in Cohens book? I assure you it will return handsome dividends, even in the present economy. (Peter Kivy Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism ) In Thinking of Others, Ted Cohen argues that the ability to imagine oneself as another person is an indispensable human capacity--as essential to moral awareness as it is to literary appreciation--and that this talent for identification is the same as the talent for metaphor. To be able to see oneself as someone else, whether the someone else is a real person or a fictional character, is to exercise the ability to deal with metaphor and other figurative language. The underlying faculty, Cohen argues, is the same--simply the ability to think of one thing as another when it plainly is not.In an engaging style, Cohen explores this idea by examining various occasions for identifying with others, including reading fiction, enjoying sports, making moral arguments, estimating ones future self, and imagining how one appears to others. Using many literary examples, Cohen argues that we can engage with fictional characters just as intensely as we do with real people, and he looks at some of the ways literature itself takes up the question of interpersonal identification and understanding.An original meditation on the necessity of imagination to moral and aesthetic life, Thinking of Others is an important contribution to philosophy and literary theory.**