Body Movement and Speech in Medical Interaction

List of contents

Preface; The transcription system; 1. Video analysis: interactional coordination in movement and speech; 2. The display of recipiency and the beginning of the consultation; 3. Maintaining involvement in the consultation; 4. Forms of participation; 5. The physical examination; 6. Taking leave of the doctor; 7. Postscript: the use of medical records and computers during the consultation; Notes; References; Index.

Summary

Based on a collection of video recordings, this book offers a micro-analysis of the visual and vocal aspects of the interaction between doctors and patients.

Product details

• Authors: Christian Heath
• Assisted by: Katherine Nicholls (Illustration)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.09.1986
• EAN: 9780521253352
• ISBN: 978-0-521-25335-2
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics; Cambridge Textbooks in Linguis
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General