title: [Researcher, physician, patient connection in information, communication, and relationship].
abstract: The change from the sociology of medicine to the sociology of health comes about in a post-modern social context characterized by a complex and ambiguous situation. This is particularly true in the case of maternity where communication between people of different knowledge is fundamental: the researcher, doctor and female patient tend to lean towards an auto-referential relationship based on an informative communication method (as emerged from a survey on how women patients received information in the cities of Bologna and Urbino). Adopting a relational type communication based on listening, the three subjects can create a common system which, thanks also to the support of modern technology, can help to easily overcome the difficulties encountered.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Sociologia della Comunicazione, Università degli Studi, Urbino.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Mazzoli
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008425:Maternal Behavior; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011247:Pregnancy; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D012106:Research; D012961:Sociology