Constructing Patienthood in Brokered Medical Interaction - Iraqienglish Encounters

This book analyzes the actions of limited-English-speaking patients from Iraqi communities in Southern California when their interactions are translated by bilingual family members. Employing conversational analysis of patient-initiated actions, Afaf Ali examines the role patients play in challenging discursive asymmetries in healthcare.

List of contents

Chapter 1: The Interaction of Medicine and Art: Key Concepts and Theoretical Applications
Chapter 2: Ethnographic Notes: The Poetics of Collecting Language-Brokering Vignettes
Chapter 3: Patients' Initiatives: Constructing Patienthood Cooperatively and Independently
Chapter 4: Asserting Patienthood through Expansion
Chapter 5: The Distribution of Mediated Talk: Who Talks and Who talks Next?
Chapter 6: Brokering Medical Decisions

About the author

Afaf Ali is a research fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles, National Heritage Language Resource Center.

Product details

• Authors: Afaf Ali, Afaf Ali Nash
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781666902389
• ISBN: 978-1-66690-238-9
• No. of pages: 180
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Linguistics, MEDICAL / Physician & Patient, Anthropology, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, doctor/patient relationship, Doctor / patient relationship