Science and medicine in dialogue : thinking through particulars and universals / edited by Roger Bibace ... [and others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Universals and particulars in the practices of psychology and medicine : entering a dialogue / Roger Bibace, James D. Laird, Kenneth L. Noller and Jaan Valsiner -- 1. Fast and frugal heuristics in medical decision making / Gerd Gigerenzer and Stephanie Kurzenhauser -- 2. Promoting prevention and detection : psychologically tailoring and framing messages about health / Peter Salovey -- 3. Health care risk escalators / Bob Heyman -- 4. A qualitative approach to health risk management / Bob Heyman -- 5. Understanding the results of medical tests : why the representation of statistical information matters / Ulrich Hoffrage, Stephanie Kurzenhauser and Gerd Gigerenzer -- 6. The centrality of the clinician : a view of medicine from the general to the particular / Kenneth L. Noller and Roger Bibace -- 7. A no-fault learning program (NFLP) as life long learning / Roger Bibace and Kenneth L. Noller -- 8. Analysis of psychological processes related to outcomes in sensory-driven medical procedures / Roger Bibace, Robert Leeman and Kenneth L. Noller -- 9. Evidence-based medicine : quantitatively moving from the universal to the particular / David Chelmow -- 10. Seeking health care : practical steps taken by a woman in an immigration context / Sofie Baarnhielm -- 11. Meaning and decision making processes about health issues : toward a qualitative methodology of investigation / Katia S. Amorim and Maria Clotilde Rossetti-Ferreira -- 12. Generic disease and particular lives : a systemic and dynamic approach to childhood cancer / Micheline Silva -- 13. A microgenetic developmental perspective on statistics and measurement / James D. Laird -- 14. Decision making with incomplete information : systemic and nonsystemic ways of thinking in psychology and medicine / Aaro Toomela -- 15. Listening is not hearing : improving diagnostic accuracy in cardiac auscultation / Jeremy Golding, David Stevens and Roger Bibace -- 16. Recruitment and retention : examining process in research relationships / Mary Alston Kerllenevich, Keneth L. Noller and Roger Bibace -- 17. What happens when a researcher asks a question? / Jaan Valsiner, Roger Bibace and Talia LaPushin -- 18. Diversity in unity : standard questions and nonstandard interpretations / Jaan Valsiner, Rainer Diriwachter and Christine Sauck.