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Science and Medicine in Dialogue: Thinking through Particulars and Universals (Health Psychology Series) »

Authors: Roger Bibace (Editor), Jaan Valsiner (Editor), James D. Laird (Editor), Kenneth L. Noller
ISBN-13: 9780275978723, ISBN-10: 0275978729
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Date Published: January 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Roger Bibace

ROGER BIBACE is Chief of the Division of Behavioral Science in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at New England Medical Center in Boston, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Tufts University Medical School, and Adjunct Professor of Family and Community Health at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

JAMES D. LAIRD is Professor of Psychology in the Francis Hiatt School of Psychology, Clark University.

KENNETH L. NOLLER is the Louis E. Phaneuf Professor and Chair in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Tufts-New England Medical Center.

JAAN VALSINER is Professor and Chair in the Department of Psychology, Clark University.

Book Synopsis

Based on two workshops exploring commonalities in the practice of psychology and medicine, nearly two dozen contributing psychologists, physicians, and other experts from the US, Europe, and Brazil consider areas of mutual interest to the two disciplines as well as schisms that need to be bridged for the development of the most effective science and practice. The volume's five sections address how human thinking, in everyday life and in medicine, reaches relevant decisions; how generalized knowledge affects individual decisions; what case studies have to say regarding personal decisions about medical care under uncertainty; how the interface between universals and particulars can lead to the development of new methodologies; and what meanings apply to the notion of participation in research. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

	Universals and particulars in the practices of psychology and medicine : entering a dialogue
1	Fast and frugal heuristics in medical decision making	3
2	Promoting prevention and detection : psychologically tailoring and framing messages about health	17
3	Health care risk escalators	43
4	A qualitative approach to health risk management	65
5	Understanding the results of medical tests : why the representation of statistical information matters	83
6	The centrality of the clinician : a view of medicine from the general to the particular	99
7	A no-fault learning program (NFLP) as life long learning	109
8	Analysis of psychological processes related to outcomes in sensory-driven medical procedures	121
9	Evidence-based medicine : quantitatively moving from the universal to the particular	139
10	Seeking health care : practical steps taken by a woman in an immigration context	161
11	Meaning and decision making processes about health issues : toward a qualitative methodology of investigation	175
12	Generic disease and particular lives : a systemic and dynamic approach to childhood cancer	197
13	A microgenetic developmental perspective on statistics and measurement	221
14	Decision making with incomplete information : systemic and nonsystemic ways of thinking in psychology and medicine	231
15	Listening is not hearing : improving diagnostic accuracy in cardiac auscultation	243
16	Recruitment and retention : examining process in research relationships	259
17	What happens when a researcher asks a question?	275
18	Diversity in unity : standard questions and nonstandard interpretations	289