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Patient self-management programs have become increasingly popular and are now also receiving official endorsements. This paper analyses two possible types of positive justifications for promoting patient self-management: evidence-based and patient-centred justifications. It is argued that evidence-based justifications, although important politically are deficient and that the primary justification for patient self-management must be a patient-centred justification focusing on the patient’s privileged access to his or her own lived body.
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Holm, S. Justifying patient self-management – evidence based medicine or the primacy of the first person perspective. Med Health Care Philos 8, 159–164 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-005-2280-x
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