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Andrew Edgar1, Stephen Pattison2

  • 1Centre for Applied Ethics, Cardiff University, John Percival Building, Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU, UK. edgar@cf.ac.uk.

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Flourishing in healthcare involves embracing human vulnerability and creatively engaging with life's challenges. This narrative approach to illness allows patients and carers to find meaning and continue living constructively.

Keywords:
HappinessHeideggerMacIntyreNarrativeNussbaumVulnerabilityWell-being

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Area of Science:

  • Philosophy of Medicine
  • Healthcare Ethics
  • Existential Psychology

Background:

  • Existing concepts like happiness and well-being inadequately capture human vulnerability.
  • Healthcare provision requires a nuanced understanding of patient and carer flourishing.
  • The concept of flourishing offers a unique perspective on the human condition within healthcare.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To define flourishing in a way that is applicable to healthcare settings.
  • To explore the role of vulnerability in achieving flourishing.
  • To provide a framework for fostering flourishing in patients, carers, and institutions.

Main Methods:

  • Philosophical analysis drawing on existentialist thought (Heidegger) and capabilities approach (Nussbaum).
  • Conceptual exploration of 'flourishing' in relation to autonomy, contingency, and narrative.
  • Application of the concept to the experience of illness and healthcare provision.

Main Results:

  • Flourishing is defined as the imaginative and creative engagement with human vulnerability and life's contingencies.
  • Illness, by highlighting vulnerability, can be a catalyst for reflection and narrative sense-making.
  • Telling a life story that realistically engages with suffering is central to flourishing.

Conclusions:

  • A narrative-based understanding of flourishing is crucial for effective healthcare.
  • Healthcare should support patients and carers in constructing meaningful life narratives amidst vulnerability.
  • Fostering flourishing enhances the well-being of individuals and the integrity of caring institutions.