Dehumanization of health care

Patients are being perceived and treated as things or nonpersons or lesser persons without any warmth in human interaction. The same social forces that contribute to dehumanization in economic and political milieus lead to dehumanization in health care: aggregation of services, bureaucratization of services, secularization of values, professionalization of skills, and proliferation of technologies.

1. The highly technical nature of hospitals and specialist practices is bewildering. Many patients do not understand what is going on and want someone to listen to them, to make them feel less like an object.

2. The architectural design of modern British hospitals is soulless; aesthetically pleasing dimensions that would provide an atmosphere of healing are absent from modern hospital buildings.

1. British architects claim that modern hospitals are built to meet patients' needs and improve their well-being.

1. Unethical practices of health services
2. Inadequate health services
3. Dehumanization of man in the technological process

1. Neglect of elderly in institutional care
2. Irresponsible transspecies organ transplantation
3. Inappropriate managed care regimes
4. Aversion to institutionalized care

1. Refusal to provide medical treatment
2. Non-use of available health facilities
3. Neglected young children
4. Medical deception
5. Irrational conscientious refusal of medical intervention
6. Inadequate maternal and child health care
7. Dehumanization of death
8. Coronavirus disease

1. Unethical practice of health professionals
2. Unauthorized sale of personal information
3. Discrimination against women in health care
4. Abusive institutional care

1. Male bias of medicine
2. Female bias of medicine

1. Providing health services
2. Humanizing health care
3. Assisting women in labour

1. Undignified
2. Maltreatment
3. Inhumanity
4. Health
5. Degradation
6. Care
7. Abuse