Science Communication and Health : Fostering Trust in Doctor-Patient Interaction.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Consolandi, Monica.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in medicine.

Physician and patient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bradford : Ethics International Press Limited, 2024.

Summary:

Communication is not only a means but also a place, where relationships establish. This book argues that a trustworthy relationship can be established through carefully managed communication. Thus, knowing and understanding language and its dynamic is essential to orient oneself during communication; this allows the speakers to fully take the opportunity to foster mutual trust. Knowing language does not only mean managing what is said, but especially being aware of what it implies, entails, and what is unsaid. This is especially true in the case of doctor-patient communication, where one of the speakers is also the subject of the speech. The author looks at the moment of interaction between the physician and the patient as the chance for building and consolidating a strong therapeutic alliance. If the chance is not taken or wisely managed, it could cause the opposite, i.e., loss of trust, also possibly influencing patient's concordance to treatment. This unusual and valuable approach to doctor-patient communication has its roots in the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of science.

Contents:

Intro

Introduction

Where I provide an overall view of the topic and the state of the art

Classical Advice: Galen and the Art of Medicine

Where I discuss Galen's approach, and I show it to be relevant for contemporary medicine

"The case is anecdotic"

Where I provide a real case study to contextualize the previous theoretical chapter

Implicit Assumptions and Trust within the Doctor-Patient Dynamic: A Philosophical Linguistic Examination of Preoperative Consultations

Where I discuss the power of language in doctor-patient interactions with particular reference to the context of pre-operative evaluation

From the philosophical discussion to a practical analysis

Where I show a promising application of philosophical tools to artificial intelligence development

Table 1 Distribution of the misunderstanding within our dataset based on Rossi and Macagno's codebook (Rossi and Macagno 2020).

Table 2 Misunderstanding classification without oversampling.

Table 3 Misunderstanding classification with oversampling.

Eumanipulation: From Organ Donation to Doctor-Patient Communication

Where I discuss a possible strategy to communicate with patients and relatives in the particular context of organ donation

"You should be more cautious"

Philosophy Leading the Way: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Study Communication of Severe Diagnoses

Where I offer a philosophy-based approach to developing a study protocol focused on the communication of severe diagnoses

Table 1. Phases of the study protocol COMMUNI.CARE and, for each, the contribution of philosophy.

Table 2 Description of felicity/infelicity applied to the codebook

examples from our data (table modified from Consolandi et al. 2024).

Conclusion.

Where I wrap up and discuss further steps

COMMUNI.CARE (COMMUNIcation and patient engagement at diagnosis of PAncreatic CAncer): study protocol

Where I attach the study protocol that gives me the data of the examples here mentioned.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781804418949

1804418943

OCLC:

1463071051