Medical Communication in Clinical Contexts - Softcover

Benjamin Bates; Rukhsana Ahmed

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1465208291 ISBN 13: 9781465208293

Publisher: Kendall Hunt Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

Medical Communication in Clinical Contexts is an edited collection designed to show and tell how patient-centered medical communication can be performed in clinical contexts. Medical Communication in Clinical Contexts contains three primary themes: An integrated view of health communication in applied clinical contexts. An appreciation of medical communication as a multidisciplinary, yet specialized, field of study. Medical communication as simultaneously social scientific, humanistic, and professional in orientation. Medical Communication in Clinical Contexts is divided into four sections aimed at demonstrating the three primary themes. The first and second sections primarily are concerned with using theories and methods to examine acts of communication to understand when medical communication has been patient-centered and when it has needed improvement. The third and fourth sections focus on theoretically and methodologically informed communication interventions that seek to promote

About this edition

• Publisher: Kendall Hunt Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1465208291
• ISBN 13: 9781465208293
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 266