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Selected Books

Here we present selected books that have been edited by or written in co-operation with members of the Harding Center:

Better Doctors, Better Patients, Better Decisions: Envisioning Health Care 2020

How Better Education of Doctors and Patients Can Improve Health Care at Less Cost

thumb_sfr06_-_book_coverThe Ernst Strüngmann Forum brought together 40 international experts from clinical work, psychology, economy, public health, industry and insurance to analyze systematically the multiple issues involved in health literacy and to delineate concrete ways to improve it. Their work will now appear in a volume edited by Gerd Gigerenzer and Sir Muir Gray.



We offer you a free download of several chapters here!
Gut Feelings
gut_feelingsHow does intuition work? Can following your gut feelings lead to some of the best decisions? It seems naive, even ludicrous, to think so. Yet Gigerenzer demonstrates that our gut feelings are actually the result of unconscious mental processes.
Calculated Risks
thumb_calculated_risksThe unique value of Calculated Risks lies in the practical and simple tools it provides to help readers understand risks and communicate them effectively to others.
New England Journal of Medicine
Selected Articles:

Here we present selected articles by the Harding Center for Risk Literacy. You can find further publications as well as the possibility to download or request them via e-mail on each of our personal pages, accessible from the menu ("About Us" > "Team").

Misleading Communication of Risk

uncertainty Many scientific publications use misleading numbers to communicate risk. This article examines publications in medical journals and demonstrates how missing transparency constrains the accurate understanding of risks.

Launching the Century of the Patient

gigerenzer_gray Efficient health care requires informed doctors and patients. Gerd Gigerenzer and Sir J. A. Muir Gray identify seven "sins" that have contributed to a lack of respective knowledge and explain why governments and health institutes need to change course.

How simple are good judgments?

good-judgments It is often taken for granted that complex judgments require complex strategies. In a review article published in Cognitive Processing, we argue that in situations with an uncertain outcome, the opposite is in fact true.

Study shows: Europeans clearly overestimate the benefits of cancer screenings

gigerenzer_gray Interviews with more than 10,000 individuals in 9 European countries revealed that Europeans are poorly informed optimists when it comes to cancer screening and its benefits.

Smart strategies for doctors and doctors-in-training: heuristics in medicine
thumb_smart_strategies In a recent article, we show that very simple decision strategies (heuristics) can be helpful companions for doctors and doctors-in-training if these strategies are adapted to the situations to which they are to be applied.

 

A numbers game?

thumb_statisticsMany doctors, patients, journalists, and politicians alike do not understand what health statistics mean or draw wrong conclusions without noticing.