The relationship between medicine and the public: the challenge of concordance
Abstract: Concordance is based on the idea that patients and practitioners should work together towards an agreement on treatment choice. This requires a redefinition of the relations and encounters between doctors and their patients. This redefinition emphasizes the need for patient involvement and participation. In this article we examine concordance against the background of wider social change, structural as well as interpersonal. We focus in particular on challenges to trust, noting that the almost instinctive trust that people formerly had for professional experts has for many reasons diminished. One consequence of this, we suggest, is that concordance is being espoused at a time when its accomplishment may be particularly threatened. In fact there are strong grounds for claiming that support for the notion of concordance could possibly result in a growth of ‘hidden’ communication pathologies by means of what the social theorist Habermas (1984) has termed ‘systematically distorted comm
- Location
-
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
- Extent
-
Online-Ressource
- Language
-
Englisch
- Notes
-
Postprint
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Health ; 9 (2005) 1 ; 5-21
- Event
-
Veröffentlichung
- (where)
-
Mannheim
- (when)
-
2005
- Creator
-
Stevenson, Fiona
Scambler, Graham
- DOI
-
10.1177/1363459305048091
- URN
-
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-225811
- Rights
-
Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
- Last update
-
25.03.2025, 1:57 PM CET
Data provider
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. If you have any questions about the object, please contact the data provider.
Associated
- Stevenson, Fiona
- Scambler, Graham
Time of origin
- 2005
Other Objects (12)
The relationship between medicine and the public: the challenge of concordance
Communication in medicine : a challenge to the profession
"Cast back into the dark ages of medicine"? The challenge of antimicrobial resistance
WOMEN AND THE URBAN SANITATION CHALLENGE: Tracing an intersectional relationship
The concordance to the Critique of pure reason
The challenge
The challenge
The challenge
A complete concordance to the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. 9.. A concordance to The romaunt of the rose
Molecular nuclear medicine : the challenge of genomics and proteomics ; with 49 tables
The Feminist Challenge
Meeting the Challenge
The relationship between medicine and the public: the challenge of concordance
Communication in medicine : a challenge to the profession
"Cast back into the dark ages of medicine"? The challenge of antimicrobial resistance
WOMEN AND THE URBAN SANITATION CHALLENGE: Tracing an intersectional relationship
The concordance to the Critique of pure reason
The challenge
The challenge
The challenge
A complete concordance to the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. 9.. A concordance to The romaunt of the rose
Molecular nuclear medicine : the challenge of genomics and proteomics ; with 49 tables
The Feminist Challenge
Meeting the Challenge
The relationship between medicine and the public: the challenge of concordance
Communication in medicine : a challenge to the profession
"Cast back into the dark ages of medicine"? The challenge of antimicrobial resistance
WOMEN AND THE URBAN SANITATION CHALLENGE: Tracing an intersectional relationship
The concordance to the Critique of pure reason
The challenge
The challenge
The challenge
A complete concordance to the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. 9.. A concordance to The romaunt of the rose
Molecular nuclear medicine : the challenge of genomics and proteomics ; with 49 tables
The Feminist Challenge