The New Medical Conversation Media, Patients,

Mazur explores the ways physicians can effectively discuss relevant information with their patients, using appropriate 'information messages,' being aware of the pitfalls of framing manipulations, and seeking to enhance both global and specific areas of understanding. In so doing, Dr. Mazur is showing how we can meet the requirements of modern consumerist health care and yet also maintain the essential and supportive qualities of physicians conversing with their patients. --Adrian Edwards, University of Wales College of Medicine, Llanedeyrn Health Center Visit our website for sample chapters!

Foreword

ix

Preface

xi

Acknowledgments

xv

Part I: Key Points Needed for Better Communication

Introduction

3

(2)

Media, Science, Doctors, and Patients

5

(12)

Basic Terms

17

(12)

The Ethics of Scientific Communication: Its Interdisciplinary Nature

29

(14)

Perspectives on Information and the Scientist, the Social Scientist, and the Philosopher

43

(10)

The New Medical Conversation and the Scientific Information Message

53

(14)

The Circumscription of Information by the Courts

67

(16)

Expanded Senses of Information by Ethicists and a Psychiatrist

83

(4)

Bioethicists Respond to the Judicial Doctrine of Informed Consent

87

(6)

Information, Cultures, and Caution

93

(12)

Part II: How Information Reaches Patients

What Has Been Learned in Research Studies about ``Information'' in the New Medical Conversation?

105

(4)

Complex Risk Information: Genetic Information and Future Generations

109

(6)

Part III: Communicating Risk-Benefit Information Today

Truth and Bias in the Way Information Is Presented

115

(12)

The Move toward Providing Patients with ``More Information'' of ``Different Types''

127

(12)

Part IV: Communicating Risk-Benefit Information in the Future

Egalitarian Approaches to Information

139

(6)

Research on Communication in the Patient--Physician Relationship

145

(2)

The Longer Information Message: Toward a Fuller Understanding of the ``Range of Information'' Being Discussed

147

(16)

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?

163

(14)

Summary and Conclusions

177

(2)

Index

179

(8)

About the Author

187

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