Clinical Communication - The Ideal of Patient Empowerment Reality of Patient Vulnerability

"Many current ideas that identify good communication with certain communication behaviours, or 'skills', were ethically inspired to help doctors see beyond disease to the whole patient. This Element challenges the 'status quo' in clinical communication research and teaching, offering instead a clinically realistic and evidence-based approach"--

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Ethical Context: What Should Clinical Communication be Like?; 3. Psychological Theory: What is Clinical Communication Like?; 4. Technologies of Patient Empowerment and Patient-Centredness; 5. The Technology of Communication Skills; 6. Communication in cancer care; 7. Towards the Next Generation of Communication Teaching; 8. Epilogue.

Summary

Many current ideas that identify good communication with certain communication behaviours, or 'skills', were ethically inspired to help doctors see beyond disease to the whole patient. This Element challenges the 'status quo' in clinical communication research and teaching, offering instead a clinically realistic and evidence-based approach.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Salmon, Peter (University of Liverpool) Salmon, Salmon Peter
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2025
• EAN: 9781009343121
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0934312-1
• No. of pages: 112
• Series: Elements in Health Communication
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; Epidemiology & medical statistics, MEDICAL / Physician & Patient, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, MEDICAL / Biostatistics, MEDICAL / Epidemiology, Communication Studies, doctor/patient relationship, Epidemiology and Medical statistics, Doctor / patient relationship