Medical explanations and lay conceptions of disease and illness in doctor-patient interaction

Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 357-370

  Nordby, Halvor ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b INLAND NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Communication; Doctor patient interaction; Layhealth beliefs; Medical language

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; ETHICS, CLINICAL; HUMANS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SICK ROLE; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; VOCABULARY;

EID: 59649106056     PISSN: 13867415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11017-008-9080-2     Document Type: Article

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