➧ Marteau, T.M. and Johnston, M. (1990) Health professionals: a source of variance
in health outcomes, Psychology and Health, 5: 47–58.
This paper examines the different models of health professional’s behaviour and
emphasizes the role of health professional’s health beliefs.
➧ Trostle, J.A. (1988) Medical compliance as an ideology, Social Science and
Medicine, 27: 1299–308.
This theoretical paper examines the background to the recent interest in
compliance and discusses the relationship between compliance and physician
control.
➧ Tuckett, D., Boulton, M., Olson, C. and Williams, A. (1985) Meetings between
experts. London: Tavistock.
This is a classic book which describes a study involving consultation analysis.
It set the scene for much subsequent research and shifted the emphasis from
doctor as expert to seeing the consultation as an interaction.
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