Information, understanding and the benign order of everyday life in genetic counselling

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 575-601

  Lehtinen, Esa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VAASA   (Finland)

Author keywords

Canditate understandings; Conversation analysis; Genetic counselling; Information delivery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FINLAND; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; VIDEORECORDING;

COMMUNICATION; COMPREHENSION; DECISION MAKING; FINLAND; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 23744451809     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2005.00457.x     Document Type: Article

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