Cultural Values and Mental Health: A Manifesto for International Values-based Practice

• Authors: Fulford K.W.M. (Bill)
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article sets out a manifesto for the development of an international values-based practice fully engaged with the diversity of cultural values and implemented through the resources of the international movement in philosophy and psychiatry. Anticipated by mid-twentieth century ordinary language philosophy of the “Oxford School,” the last three decades have witnessed a remarkable flowering of cross-disciplinary work between philosophy and psychiatry. The article indicates the scope and scale of this work and then describes the emergence of contemporary values-based practice as its philosophy-into-practice cutting edge. Values-based practice although originating in philosophy and psychiatry is currently being developed mainly in areas of bodily medicine such as surgery. As such, it has been criticized for focusing, as contemporary health care has largely focused, on the individual at the expense of cultural values. Hence arises the need for extending values-based practice internationally. The resources available from international philosophy and psychiatry for so extending values-based practice are outlined and some of the challenges are indicated. The article concludes with the hope that psychiatry in supporting the development of international values-based practice will by the same token take poll position in the development of contemporary science-led clinical care.

Keywords

EN

health care; philosophy; philosophy and psychiatry; ordinary language philosophy; science; psychiatry; values; values-based practice

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski
• Journal: Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 2(4)
• Pages: 136–147

Dates

published

2018-07-18

Contributors

author

Fulford K.W.M. (Bill)

• Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford
• Collaborating Centre for Values-based Practice, St. Catherine’s College, Oxford

Identifiers

DOI

10.26319/4722