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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Medical encounter"”.
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Affect, Literature and the Medical Encounter
… the possibility for a refocused doctor-patient encounter.
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Language discordance and levels of satisfaction between doctors and patients in a medical encounter
This study was necessitated by a paucity of research into the communication that takes place in doctor-patient interactions in Zambia; noting that patients have in the past complained that doctors communicate with them in a language they do not understand very well or at all and so were …
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Language discordance and levels of satisfaction between doctors and patients in a medical encounter
This study was necessitated by a paucity of research into the communication that takes place in doctor-patient interactions in Zambia; noting that patients have in the past complained that doctors communicate with them in a language they do not understand very well or at all and so were …
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Medical Virtue in Contemporary Practice: Has COVID-19 Reawakened Virtue in the Modern Medical Encounter?
… already overburdened healthcare system, leading medical professionals to reevaluate priorities and redefine their professional identities. Focusing particularly on the meaning of care in the physician-patient relationship, this thesis develops an argument for the type of medical practice that …
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A discourse analysis of the nature of shared decision-making in general practice consultations
… As a consequence most of the work into the medical encounter has tended to be one-sided and addresses only one participant at a time. Thus, one half of the interaction may be neglected. Therefore, only a partial picture of the nature of interaction is provided. In summary therefore, …
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NARRATIVE MEDICINE AND TRADITIONAL MEDICAL INTERVIEWING APPROACHES IN WOMEN WITH BREAST CANCER
… early-stage breast cancer patients and their medical providers were analyzed, focusing on the content of the medical encounter and the patients' subsequent recall of that information. Traditional biomedical interviewing, narrative medicine approaches, and emerging types of dialogue were coded …
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An exploration of the effect of a life-limiting diagnosis on an individual’s relationship with their body: a qualitative study
… of the body within the<br/>context of the medical encounter, and adaptivity to disease. Discussion of these constructs focussed on the experience of embodiment that can be seen to underlie participants lived experience of disease.
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Exploring the nexus of loneliness, stigma, health complaints, and primary medical care in older New Zealanders
… stigma, health complaints, and primary medical care in older New Zealanders was explored from a social constructionist perspective. The intent of the studies was the support and explanation of the underlying arguments of the thesis. For this age group loneliness is a clinical condition …
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A Pill for the Ill? : Depression, Medicalization and Public Health
… of distress from pathological conditions. This medicalization of public health is believed to narrow the focus of public health practices. The aim of this thesis is twofold. The first objective is to describe and analyze experiences with antidepressant treatment for depression as expressed in …
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Oribasius’ Woman: Medicine, Christianity and Society in Late Antiquity
As a writer of medical summaries and compendia, Oribasius has often been dismissed as a harbinger of late antique medical decline. This dissertation challenges this long-lived assumption by revaluating the compiler and his writings, and the place of medicine in the cultural and social landscape of …
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Clinical Reasoning and Causal Attribution in Medical Diagnosis
Forming a medical diagnosis is a complicated reasoning process undertaken by physicians. Although there has been much research focusing on clinical reasoning approaches, there is limited empirical evidence in relation to causal attribution in medical diagnosis. The research on which this thesis is …
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FAMILIES DESIGNED THROUGH ART: EXPLORING EMBODIED EXPERIENCE AND CONCEPTION DISCLOSURE BASED ON SEXUAL IDENTITY
… I engage mostly a conflict, feminist and medical consumerism frameworks to discuss individual experience and behavior within the medical encounter for fertility treatment. I also use symbolic interactionism and communication privacy management theory frameworks to gain insight on …
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Ice, Ice, Baby? A Sociological Exploration of Social Egg Freezing
… reproductive intentions as well as how the ‘medical’ encounter in egg freezing is experienced. The thesis draws on Layder’s theory of social domains, selectively focusing on the domains of contextual resources, situated activity, and psychobiography to explore the macro and micro level …
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The Being in some body: An Autoethnographic Account of Being and Becoming-in-the-world with Multiple Sclerosis
… review of the professional organization and medical(ised) treatment of those with MS and with similar chronic conditions. My aims are to generate research that goes beyond the passive construal of the body typical of medical research to a process through which embodiment can be understood not …