Powers Penny
South Dakota State University College of Nursing, Brookings, SD 57007-0098, USA.
ANS Adv Nurs Sci. 2003 Jul-Sep;26(3):227-37. doi: 10.1097/00012272-200307000-00007.
This article argues that the concept of empowerment has been co-opted by health professionals and redefined as an intervention to produce compliance. Patients are considered empowered by health professionals only if they make the correct choices as defined by the health care provider. Patients are not informed about all possible choices and are not free to make their own choices for their own reasons. Empowerment is a coercive strategy that is justified by its outcomes and creates dependent populations.
本文认为，赋权概念已被医疗专业人员挪用，并重新定义为一种促使患者依从的干预措施。只有当患者做出医疗服务提供者所定义的正确选择时，医疗专业人员才会认为患者获得了赋权。患者并未被告知所有可能的选择，也无法出于自身原因自由做出自己的选择。赋权是一种以结果为正当理由的强制性策略，它造就了依赖他人的人群。
