new medical conversation
Subtitle: media, patients, doctors, and the ethics of scientific communication
By: Dennis J. Mazur.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
Subjects: Communication in medicine; Communication in science; Communication; Ethics, Medical; Interprofessional relations; Mass Media; Professional-Patient Relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Key points needed for better communication; title: Introduction; title: Media, science, doctors, and patients; title: Basic terms; title: The ethics of scientific communication : its interdisciplinary nature; title: Perspectives on information and the scientist, the social scientist, and the philosopher; title: The new medical conversation and the scientific information message; title: The circumscription of information by the courts; title: Expanded senses of information by ethicists and a psychiatrist; title: Bioethicists' respond to the judicial doctrine of informed consent; title: Information, cultures, and caution; title: How information reaches patients; title: What has been learned in research studies about "information" in the new medical conversation?; title: Complex risk information : genetic information and future generations; title: Communicating risk-benefit information today; title: Truth and bias in the way information is presented; title: The move toward providing patients with "more information" of "different types"; title: Communicating risk-benefit information in the future; title: Egalitarian approaches to information; title: Research on communication in the patient- physician relationship; title: The longer information message : towards a fuller understanding of the "range of information" being discussed; title: Decision support for patients : it's here, but what is it, why is it here, whom is it supposed to benefit, and where is it going?