Healthcare and culture : subjectivity in medical contexts

The book deals with current issues, pertinent every healthcare relationship. Changes in medicine as well as some constant aspects over time arise within a cultural ground and generate new questions and issues that are not only purely medical, but also bioethical, social, political, economic and psyc...

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Other Authors Freda, Maria Francesca (Editor), Picione, Raffaele De Luca (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2017]
SeriesAdvances in cultural psychology.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806609215
DOI10.1108/978-1-68123-646-9
Physical Description1 online resource (xxiii, 313 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Series editor's preface: Caring for health care: cultural processes in medicine / Jaan Valsiner
  • Introduction: The meaning making processes of healthcare relationship in the current scenario / Maria Francesca Freda and Raffaele De Luca Picione
  • Part I. Healthcare relationship as arena of meaning: From cultural issue to subjective construction of illness
  • Chapter 1. Medicine as a complex set of cultural systems of meanings / Raffaele De Luca Picione
  • Chapter 2. The border into wonderland: When words between doctor and patient is not enough / Jensine Nedergaard
  • Chapter 3. Autonomy: A concept at the crossroads of medicine and psychology / Giovanni Guerra
  • Chapter 4. The role of the meaning-making process in the management of hereditary angioedema / Livia Savarese, Maria Bova, Raffaella Falco, Maria Domenica Guarino, Gerarda Siani, Paolo Valerio, and Maria Francesca Freda
  • Part II. Healthcare relationship as arena of transformation: From communication to dialogue
  • Chapter 5. Psychological scaffolding in the healthcare relationship: A methodological proposal / Maria Francesca Freda, Raffaele De Luca Picione, and Francesca Dic ̈-- Chapter 6. Breaking bad news: Theory and practice for healthcare professionals' training / Giulia Lamiani, Daniela Leone, Elaine C. Meyer, and Elena Vegni
  • Chapter 7. Psychologists and family physicians in an experience of collaborative care in Italy: An effort towards integration and against stigma / Luigi Solano, Barbara Cordella, Michela Di Trani, Rosa Ferri, and Alessia Renzi
  • Chapter 8. Clinical psychology in hospital setting / Renzo Carli, Rosa Maria Paniccia, Silvia Policelli, and Andrea Caputo
  • Part III. Mental healthcare as paradigmatic arena to understand the complexity of human relation
  • Chapter 9. From psychopathology to service: A new view of the clinical psychology intervention / Sergio Salvatore, Claudia Venuleo, Valeria Pace, Marianna Puglisi, Mari Tandoi, Annalisa Venezia, Rossano Grassi, and Gianna Mangeli
  • Chapter 10. Recovery, paternalism and narrative understanding in mental healthcare / Tim Thornton
  • Chapter 11. Why do you then not shit? Diagnosis and the semiotic sphere / Yair Neuman
  • Part IV. Pregnancy and motherhood: A challenging arena for dialogue between medicine and psychology
  • Chapter 12. Birth experience as socially and culturally regulated event / Kristiina Uriko
  • Chapter 13. The generative function of a healthcare system: Linking meanings between chronic illness and motherhood / Giorgia Margherita, Maria Carlino, and Francesca Tessitore
  • Chapter 14. Doctor-patient relationship in face of grief/mourning: The case of gestational losses / Vivian Volkmer Pontes and Ana Cecl̕ia Bastos
  • Chapter 15. Conclusion: Healthcare relationship: An open space dialogue in search of its own forms / Maria Francesca Freda and Raffaele De Luca Picione
  • About the authors.