Effecting change through dialogue: Habermas' theory of communicative action as a tool in medical lifestyle interventions

Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 81-90

  Walseth, Liv Tveit ^a,b   Schei, Edvin ^b  

^a Research Unit for General Practice   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Communication; Communicative action; Decision making; Dialogue; General practice; Habermas; Lifestyle counselling; Lifeworld

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650735273     PISSN: 13867423     EISSN: 15728633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11019-010-9260-5     Document Type: Article

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