Authors:Debra L. Roter, Judith A. Hall,
Publisher: Auburn House Paperback
Keywords: doctors, patients, talking, visits, medical, improving, communication
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1993-07-30
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 0865692343
ISBN-13: 9780865692343
Verbal and non-verbal exchanges during medical visits are seen by Roter and Hall as having highly significant impacts on the doctor-patient relationship and the efficacy of health care. The effectiveness, indeed the appropriateness, of medical care is itself impacted by the social and psychological processes involved as doctor and patient meet. Roter and Hall analyze how a number of important factors can tend to condition both doctors and patients to roles that then can become barriers to a positive relationship. They detail principles and approaches that will improve the medical visit experie
Authors:Judith A. Hall, Debra Roter,
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: patients, talking, doctors
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-08-30
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0275990176
ISBN-13: 9780275990176
Medical visits are often less effective and satisfying than they would be if doctors and patients better understood the communication most needed for attainment of mutual health goals. Here, professors and Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Medical School join forces to help us understand this vital issue, and the means to best facilitate communication that brings more effective medical care and happier, healthier consumers. The verbal and nonverbal exchanges that take place between doctor and patient affect both participants, and can result in a range of positive or negative psychologica
Author: Rahim Acar
Publisher: Brill Academic Pu
Keywords: philosophy, talking, theology, science, islamic, vol, aquinas, god, creation, avicenna, thomas, positions
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2005-10-15
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9004144773
ISBN-13: 9789004144774
Comparing Avicenna?s and Thomas Aquinas? positions regarding human knowledge, this volumes talks about God and the nature of the creative action and the beginning of the universe. The overall argument of the book is that their conception of theological language plays an important role in shaping their positions concerning the creation of the universe. In the first part, their conception of the theological language and divine formal features are explored and how their positions regarding theological language differ from each other is discussed. The second part includes a comparison of their co
Author: Ben Sidra
Publisher: Da Capo Pre
Keywords: jazz, talking
Number of Pages: 536
Published: 1995-03-22
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0306806134
ISBN-13: 9780306806131
Miles Davis, Gil Evans, Dizzy Gillespie, Jon Hendricks, Max Roach, Betty Carter, Jackie McLean, Don Cherry, Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner, Archie Shepp, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams, Keith Jarrett, Wynton Marsalis, and Jack DeJohnettethese are just a few of the jazz musicians whose conversations with Ben Sidran are recorded in this volume. In stimulating, personal, and informative discussions, they not only reveal their personalities, but also detail aspects of the performance, technique, business, history, and emotions of jazz. Newly expanded with previously unpublished dialogues with David Mu
Author: Douglas Presto
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: ground, talking
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1995-07-01
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0684803917
ISBN-13: 9780684803913
Documenting one family’s dangerous journey across the harshest deserts of the Southwest, a day-by-day account of adventure and personal growth is also an informative exploration of Navajo life and history. 15,000 first printing. Tour.
Author: P.D. Jame
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: fiction, detective, talking
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2009-12-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0307592820
ISBN-13: 9780307592828
A Q&A with P.D. James Question: What made you decide to write a book about detective fiction? P.D. James: I wrote my book, Talking About Detective Fiction, because the Bodleian Library, one of the great libraries of the world, asked me to write about detective fiction in aid of the Library. I said I would do so when I had finished writing The Private Patient. Detective fiction has fascinated me both as a reader and a novelist for over 50 years, and I enjoyed revisiting the books of the Golden Age which have given me such pleasure, and describing how I myself set out on the task of writing a d
Author: Patrick Colli
Publisher: Sterling
Keywords: way, talking, win, negotiate
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2009-01-06
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1402761228
ISBN-13: 9781402761225
Negotiation is not just a process, its an attitudeone that we all can learn. Patrick Collins, an internationally recognized expert on the subject, offers an original, comprehensive guide to maximizing negotiation skills, whether in a one-on-one encounter or a larger, more formal negotiating session. Collins explains what negotiation is and isnt (negotiation is not confrontation) and discusses ways to overcome the fear of negotiation, strategies for gaining the upper hand by manipulating the environment, and tactics tailored to negotiation type. What he offers is much more than just a guid
