The new medical conversation : media, patients, doctors, and the ethics of scientific communication / Dennis J. Mazur.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mazur, Dennis John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in medicine.

Communication in science.

Communication.

Ethics, Medical.

Interprofessional Relations.

Mass Media.

Professional-Patient Relations.

Medical Subjects:

Communication.

Ethics, Medical.

Interprofessional Relations.

Mass Media.

Professional-Patient Relations.

Physical Description:

xvi, 187 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2003]

Summary:

Today patient-physician relationships are just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the communication of scientific information to citizens. This new medical conversation places on all of us -- media, scientists, doctors, and patients -- new obligations for clearer communication than ever before.

In The New Medical Conversation, Dennis Mazur introduces and argues for better communication practice in the doctor-patient relationship during an era of changing technology, media, and consumer awareness. Dr. Mazur lays out the terrain, the approaches, and the strategies to best identify and understand what the problems are in risk communication in medicine and how to begin solving them.

Contents:

Key points needed for better communication. Introduction

Media, science, doctors, and patients

Basic terms

The ethics of scientific communication : its interdisciplinary nature

Perspectives on information and the scientist, the social scientist, and the philosopher

The new medical conversation and the scientific information message

The circumscription of information by the courts

Expanded senses of information by ethicists and a psychiatrist

Bioethicists respond to the judicial doctrine of informed consent

Information, cultures, and caution

How information reaches patients. What has been learned in research studies about "information" in the new medical conversation?

Complex risk information : genetic information and future generations

Communicating risk-benefit information today. Truth and bias in the way information is presented

The move toward providing patients with "more information" of "different types"

Communicating risk-benefit information in the future. Egalitarian approaches to information

Research on communication in the patient-physician relationship

The longer information message : toward a fuller understanding of the "range of information" being discussed

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?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0742520285

0742520293

OCLC:

49576245