Quality patient care focuses attention on a host of empathetic and egalitarian social psychological variables beyond normal medical models based on the symptomology and etiology of the patients illness physician biologist howard waitzkin alerts us to the prevalence of social problems within clinical settings and encounters. The politics of medical encounters how patients and doctors deal with social problems howard waitzkin douglas w maynard. A progressive doctor patient relationship waitzkin argues fosters social change waitzkin provides a pathbreaking analysis of medical encounters applying perspectives from structuralism post structuralism and critical literary theory to transcripts of recorded conversations between doctors and patients. Click on the article title to read more. The politics of medical encounters how patients and doctors deal with social problems creator waitzkin howard how patients and health professional deal with social problems waitzkin howard and britt theron 1989 related items in google scholar c2009 2021 bioethics research library