{"product_id":"the-doctor-still-knows-best-michael-staffieri-jr-9781433173226","title":"The Doctor Still Knows Best: How Medical Culture Is Still Marked by Paternalism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Doctor Still Knows Best\u003c\/em\u003e explores an answer to the question: how can medical culture still be marked by paternalism despite the focused attempts by the medical community to put doctor and patient on more equal footing? The recent push within medicine has been on shared decision-making, truth-telling by the doctor, and creating a medical culture that is patient-centered. The author has discovered that, in practice, medicine tells a very different story. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSince entering the medical world twenty years ago seeking treatment for infertility through IVF, subsequently seeking treatments for her disabled son through the present day, Janet Farrell Leontiou has continually encountered a medical culture where she is not treated as an equal. As a professor of communication, the author has developed an ear for language and is able to deconstruct the ways in which communication choices create a patriarchal medical culture. Dr. Farrell Leontiou also understands how no communication can create a culture without her participation. She, therefore, invites the reader to recognize how we can endorse and recreate a culture that does not serve our interests. Through an examination of her own experience, the book offers insight on how medical paternalism has survived for as long as it has and argues that it never serves the best interest of the patient.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book provides the reader, medical student and\/or health communication student with a fresh way of thinking about how communicative choices create culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Staffieri Jr,Janet Farrell Leontiou\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1433173220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781433173226\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/26\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Michael Staffieri Jr","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48449587970303,"sku":"9781433173226","price":55.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_211c483b-6349-4382-bf0b-792f40c5b3d6.jpg?v=1777264055","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-doctor-still-knows-best-michael-staffieri-jr-9781433173226","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}