Chapter 8. An Agenda for the Twenty-First Century: Increase Informed Choice and Consent, or “If I Ran the Circus … ”
Published Online: 24 APR 2009
DOI: 10.1002/9781444310832.ch8
Copyright © 2009 Roxanne Parrott
Book Title
Talking about Health: Why Communication Matters
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How to Cite
Parrott, R. (2009) An Agenda for the Twenty-First Century: Increase Informed Choice and Consent, or “If I Ran the Circus … ”, in Talking about Health: Why Communication Matters, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444310832.ch8
Publication History
- Published Online: 24 APR 2009
- Published Print: 17 APR 2009
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ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9781405177573
Online ISBN: 9781444310832
- Summary
- Chapter
Keywords:
- An Agenda for the Twenty-first Century;
- make “personalized medicine” personal;
- mapping human genome and discoveries - blood clotting risk to multiple genes and variants;
- era of Human Genome Project - stories about breast cancer and the BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations;
- tracking your health report (… and your credit report, too);
- Stay Out of “The Big Muddy” - public health and medicine sharing common aim in domain of genetics;
- twenty-first century - communicating to make informed decisions about health, giving informed consent, and to be informed about choices;
- information is a perishable commodity - … but skills to use information in communicating about health are not …
Summary
This chapter contains sections titled:
Make “Personalized Medicine” Personal
Be Timely in the Telling
Fill in the Blanks
Track Your Health Report (… and Your Credit Report, Too)
Stay Out of “The Big Muddy”
Summing It Up …
A Final Thought