The Doctor Still Knows Best: How Medical Culture Is Still Marked by Paternalism

ISBN-13: 9781433173226 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 84 str.

Michael Staffieri Jr; Janet Farrell Leontiou

Opis

The Doctor Still Knows Best explores an answer to the question: how can medical culture still be marked by paternalism despite the focused attempts by the medical community to put doctor and patient on more equal footing?

Spis treści

Acknowledgments - Introduction - Past Medical History-IVF - History of Present Condition - The Chief Complaint - The Cultural Indicators - About the Illustrator.

O autorze

Janet Farrell Leontiou received her Ph.D. in speech communication from Penn State University and she is Associate Professor of Communication at Nassau Community College. This book is her second book on the topic of medical communication. Her first book, What Do the Doctors Say?: How Doctors Create a World Through Their Words was published in 2010.