Patient-Centred Medicine in Transition

-Foreword.- Introduction.- Communication hypocompetence--an  iatrogenic epidemic.- Democracy in medicine.- Patient-centeredness without a center.- How doctors think can be judged from how they listen and speak.- A new wave of patient-centeredness.- Models of patient-centered care.- What is meant by ‘empathy’?.- Gender matters in medical education.- Working and learning in ‘teams’ in a new era of health care.- Theorizing team process through cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT): networking and knotworking.- Theorizing team process through a Foucauldian perspective: gaining a voice in team activity at the clinical coalface.- Theorizing team process through actor-network-theory (ANT): communication practice as a theory in action.- Theorizing team process through Deleuzean rhizomatics: becoming a medical professional in nomadic teams.- Team process and complexity theory: blunting Occam’s Razor.- Building a collaborative community in medical education research.- Conclusion: professing medical identities in the liquid world of teams.​- Bibliography.- Index