Perioperative Communication and Decision Making: A social science perspective

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• Professor Lee Fleisher, Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Pennsylvania
• Tuesday 02 July 2019, 12:00-13:00
• Small Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Helen Gardner.

Lee A. Fleisher, MD, is the Robert D. Dripps Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.

Because of the high stakes of surgical intervention and related care, communication between doctors and patients as they make decisions in the perioperative space has garnered substantial attention from researchers, policymakers, and ethicists. Perioperative medicine figures prominently in national and international discussions about, for example, how best to involve patients in their care, the role of informed consent, the appropriateness of intervention vs. palliation at end of life, and how to communicate about pain amidst an ongoing opioid crisis. Yet despite the centrality of perioperative medicine to these issues, it is only recently that the methodological and theoretical toolkit of the social sciences has been applied to the empirical analysis of perioperative communication and decision making in robust fashion. This talk will present a series of perioperative studies, most using a focused ethnographic approach, that exhibit the ability of social science to generate novel descriptive models that reframe debates in policy and ethics and, in turn, reveal new paths for research and intervention.

This talk is free and open to all, no booking required.

This talk is part of the THIS Institute series.

This talk is included in these lists:

• BHRU Annual Lecture 2015
• BHRU Annual Lecture 2016
• Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit Special Seminars
• Department of Public Health and Primary Care
• Primary Care
• PublicHealth@Cambridge
• Small Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR
• THIS Institute
• primary care

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