Publisher's Synopsis
Preface; Women in a World of Men's Disease -- The Case of Female Cardiac Patients; Cardiologist-Patient Communication About Heart Failure; Clinical Indication and Shared Decision Making: Theoretical Considerations About Patient-Physician Relationship; Making Decisions About Managing Medications in Hospital; Decision-Making in Paediatric Care; Pathways into Substitute Health Care Labour; Structure of the Association between Patient and Physician Evaluations of the Level of Physician Explanations; Decision-Making in the Patient-Physician Relationship; Empowering Cancer Patients to Make Informed Decisions; Why are Primary Care Physicians Avoiding Rationing Decisions and what can be done about it? The Case of Norway; Index.