Tacit components of medical ethics: making decisions in the clinic

When a patient visits his doctor there is, as well as a spoken dialogue, also an unspoken, or tacit, dialogue between them. This may not be evident unless that dialogue breaks down when the psychological or moral terms of reference of each are seen to be different. The author of this paper tries to...

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1. VerfasserIn: Churchill, L. R. (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: BMJ Publ. 1977
In: Journal of medical ethics
Jahr: 1977, Band: 3, Heft: 3, Seiten: 129-132
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Zusammenfassung:When a patient visits his doctor there is, as well as a spoken dialogue, also an unspoken, or tacit, dialogue between them. This may not be evident unless that dialogue breaks down when the psychological or moral terms of reference of each are seen to be different. The author of this paper tries to elucidate the framework in which physician and patient think, and in so doing allow an understanding of why the physician may appear to be rigid and authoritarian in his dealing with his patients and the patient uncooperative.
ISSN:1473-4257
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal of medical ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1136/jme.3.3.129