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The relationship between medicine and the public: the challenge of concordance
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Abstract Concordance is based on the idea that patients and practitioners should work together towards an agreement on treatment choice. This requires a redefinition of the relations and encounters between doctors and their patients. This redefinition emphasizes t... view more
Concordance is based on the idea that patients and practitioners should work together towards an agreement on treatment choice. This requires a redefinition of the relations and encounters between doctors and their patients. This redefinition emphasizes the need for patient involvement and participation. In this article we examine concordance against the background of wider social change, structural as well as interpersonal. We focus in particular on challenges to trust, noting that the almost instinctive trust that people formerly had for professional experts has for many reasons diminished. One consequence of this, we suggest, is that concordance is being espoused at a time when its accomplishment may be particularly threatened. In fact there are strong grounds for claiming that support for the notion of concordance could possibly result in a growth of ‘hidden’ communication pathologies by means of what the social theorist Habermas (1984) has termed ‘systematically distorted communication’.... view less
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communication pathologies; concordance; decision-making; expertise; trust;
Document language
English
Publication Year
2005
Page/Pages
p. 5-21
Journal
Health, 9 (2005) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459305048091
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)