[The process of moulding knowledge about illness in patients with ischaemic heart disease]

The presented work handles the problem of the process of moulding knowledge about illness on the example of cardiologic patients. The papers cognitive frames are pointed out by the conception of transfer of knowledge. The author acknowledges that the patients convictions and behaviours can be understood more thoroughly if the following aspects are analysed: doctors convictions and attitudes, their skills in transferring the medical knowledge (to the patients) and ability to recognize the capacities and limitations of patients. Considering social changes, we can respect the gradual evolution of the present models of relations between patients and medical staff to the forms closer to the recommended ones.