“A person centred tool”

In a previous post I drew attention to the increasingly mechanical language of Health Improvement.

This current post starts with recent communication by National Health Improvement Leads in Scotland:

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One of my favourite writers is Robert Louis Stevenson. In “an apology for idlers”  he considers how humankind tends to approach understanding:

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Mary Midgley, now aged 95 years, is one of my favourite moral philosophers. In “Heart and mind” she considers “tests”:

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Mary Midgley has written a lot about reductionism:

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Healthcare Improvement Scotland outline that they are “one organisation, with all activities aimed at driving improvements in healthcare”:

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If you search Healthcare Improvement Scotland for “philosophy” you get three results, none of which actually relate to philosophical study:

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If you search Healthcare Improvement Scotland for “ethics” you get zero results:

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Dr Murad Moosa Khan is a psychiatrist for older adults, who like me, has an interest in ethics:

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In a recent talk he said:

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and later concluded:

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