A praxis of policy : negotiating the ethics of a duty to care among healthcare Workers in Gauteng, South Africa

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University of Pretoria

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This dissertation explores healthcare workers’ praxis of biomedical ethics in a healthcare system that has been ravaged by structural challenges evidenced by poor management, shortages of biomedical supplies, staff, and equipment. By following the narratives of healthcare professionals, I examine the ways in which they attempt to fulfill their duty to care for patients by working around and through situations. I make visible the tools, techniques, practices, and processes they engage in to negotiate and achieve patient care. I argue that although certain actions of healthcare professionals may appear unethical from the bioethical fundamentalist’s viewpoint, my evidence suggests that healthcare workers mostly perceive such situations less as a deviation from clinical ethics but as praxis of it.

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Dissertation (MSocSci (Anthropology))--University of Pretoria, 2023.

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UCTD, Healthcare workers, SDG-03: Good health and well-being, SDG-10: Reduces inequalities, SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions, Improvisation, Ethics, Praxis

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SDG-03: Good health and well-being
SDG-10: Reduces inequalities
SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions

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