Patient-Centred Medicine in Transition: The Heart of the Matter

by Alan Bleakley

Book Overview

This book challenges functional models for more aesthetic and ethical models, where communication is grounded in values systems of cultures. Here, communication is treated as a distributed phenomenon involving networks of persons, activities and artifacts, and extends beyond doctor-patient relationships to working in and across teams around patients. The purpose of the book is to stimulate thinking about how patient care and safety may be improved...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319379674
• ISBN13: 9783319379678
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"