The book deals with current issues, pertinent every healthcare
relationship. Changes in medicine as well as some constant aspects
over time arise within a cultural ground and generate new questions
and issues that are not only purely medical, but also bioethical,
social, political, economic and psychological of course. On the one
hand, changes in medicine generate new questions for society, on
the other hand, the society poses new questions to the medicine,
new challenges, and in some cases they can conflict with
consolidated models and practices. Never the progress of Western
medicine and its therapeutic practices have been as significant as
in the last decades but the increase of specific competence and
effectiveness of medical treatments are not linearly translated
into an increase of consensus, dialogue and alliance between
medicine and society. How does psychology take on a position of
interlocutor towards medicine and its transformations? How does
Cultural Psychology, Health Psychology, Clinical Psychology
confront themselves with the processes of meaning making generated
by medicine? The interest of the book is aimed to grasp the
construction of processes of cultural, relational and subjective
meaning in the dialogical encounter between medicine and society,
between doctor and patient. The book intends to focus in particular
on two specific plans: on the one hand, to present a reflection and
analysis on contemporary medicine and its on?going transformations
of the healthcare relationship; on the other hand, to presentand
discuss experiences of intervention and possible models of
intervention addressed to healthcare and doctor?patient
relationships during its crucial steps (consultation, formulation
and communication of diagnosis, therapy, conclusion). The book's
purposes are aimed to discuss crucial and current issues on the
borders between medicine and psychology: consensus and sharing,
decision?making and autonomy, subjectivity and narration, emotions
and affectivity, medical semeiotics and cultural semiotics,
training of physicians, and epistemological, theoretical and
methodological issues.
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