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Author: Sylvie Fainzang
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Edition: New edition
Weight: 0.860kg
ISBN: 9781472456021
ISBN 10: 1472456025
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 30 April 2015
Audience:
College/higher education
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General/trade
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
’In contemporary western societies, patients are considered as the legitimate decision-makers, providing they are given proper information. Sylvie Fainzang shows how this assessment of social reality is poor. Her book enlightens us on how lies are justified on behalf of the fear of lawsuits, non-maleficence, therapeutic strategy, uncertainty of knowledge, or unwillingness to visualize the disease’s consequences. It unambiguously demonstrates the impact of social inequalities in access to information and how, in medical settings, misunderstandings arise because of cognitive and experiential discrepancies.’ Marie Gaille, CNRS-Université Paris Diderot, France ’In medical care, informed consent is at the heart of practice. Through a nuanced exploration of information exchange between patients and doctors in France, Sylvie Fainzang draws our attention to the practice of concealment within healthcare. By facing this issue head on, the book does not judge or condemn, but seeks to understand and explain processes of communication that may be described as lying. Readers interested in understanding informed consent and doctor-patient relationships will find this book's rich material to be honest, engaging and thought-provoking.’ Rachael Gooberman-Hill, University of Bristol, UK
'In contemporary western societies, patients are considered as the legitimate decision-makers, providing they are given proper information. Sylvie Fainzang shows how this assessment of social reality is poor. Her book enlightens us on how lies are justified on behalf of the fear of lawsuits, non-maleficence, therapeutic strategy, uncertainty of knowledge, or unwillingness to visualize the disease's consequences. It unambiguously demonstrates the impact of social inequalities in access to information and how, in medical settings, misunderstandings arise because of cognitive and experiential discrepancies.' Marie Gaille, CNRS-Universite Paris Diderot, France 'In medical care, informed consent is at the heart of practice. Through a nuanced exploration of information exchange between patients and doctors in France, Sylvie Fainzang draws our attention to the practice of concealment within healthcare. By facing this issue head on, the book does not judge or condemn, but seeks to understand and explain processes of communication that may be described as lying . Readers interested in understanding informed consent and doctor-patient relationships will find this book's rich material to be honest, engaging and thought-provoking.' Rachael Gooberman-Hill, University of Bristol, UK
Author Information
Sylvie Fainzang is Director of Research at the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), France and author of Of Malady and Misery; Médicaments et Société: Le patient, le médecin et l'ordonnance; and L'automédication ou les mirages de l'autonomie.
