04:189:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Health Communication, Therapeutic Relationship, Decision-Making

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Communication and Informatio
• Course: 04:189:101
• Professor: J E N Mandelbaum

Document Summary

The bucket view of context; context shapes the way we communicate. The yellow brick road of context; we construct context by communicating in a certain way. How the medical setting is talked into being : the physical setting or environment is not the key, the communication practices matter, we talk the medical setting into being. Issues that heath communication research addresses: health communication primarily focuses on (issues that heath communication research. Interpersonal issues = the interactional construction of the medical context. Media issues = how media influence our beliefs in health. Models of physician-patient relationships (emanuel & emanuel 1992: paternalistic model, doctors are like parents, traditional physician-patient relationship, medical decision: the physician decides what is best for the patient, and the patient should be thankful for that. Informative model (consumer model: doctors act as information providers, patients are like health shoppers, medical decision: doctors select, patients decide.