Argumentation and Health

1. Introduction; 2. Argumentation in the healthcare domain (by Rubinelli, Sara); 3. Argumentation and informed consent in the doctor-patient relationship (by Bickenbach, Jerome); 4. Institutional constraints on strategic maneuvering in shared medical decision-making (by Snoeck Henkemans, A. Francisca); 5. Reasonableness of a doctor's argument by authority: A pragma-dialectical analysis of the specific soundness conditions (by Pilgram, Roosmaryn); 6. Evaluating argumentative moves in medical consultations (by Bigi, Sarah); 7. Teaching argumentation theory to doctors: Why and what (by Rubinelli, Sara); 8. Direct-to-consumer advertisements for prescription drugs as an argumentative activity type (by Wierda, Renske); 9. The strategic function of variants of pragmatic argumentation in health brochures (by Poppel, Lotte van); 10. Argumentation and risk communication about genetic testing: Challenges for healthcare consumers and implications for computer systems (by Green, Nancy L.); 11. "It is about our body, our own body!": On the difficulty of telling Dutch women under 50 that mammography is not for them (by Schulz, Peter J.); 12. Index