The Social Organization of Doctor-Patient Communication

This book analyzes power in new, more complex ways, and incorporates current cutting edge debates in patients' ability to resist medical power. Part One is devoted to sociolinguistic and cognitive approaches to doctor-patient discourse. Chapters analyze the patterns of talk that are produced by the situational demands of the medical setting and provide a detailed examination of the interplay of clinical reasoning and language use in the organizational context of health care delivery. Part Two examines the production of doctor-patient communication. Chapters address the social production of doctor-patient discourse, examine the relationship between social structure and social interaction, and explore the relationship between power and resistance.

Table des matières

Physician's Foreword
Introduction: Communication and Social Context-Toward Broader Definitions
SOCIOLINGUISTIC AND COGNITIVE APPROACHES TO DISCOURSE
Three Types of Interference to an Effective Exchange of Information in the Medical Interview
Doctor/Mother/Child Communication: Linguistic Analysis of a Pediatric Interaction
Hearing Is Not Believing: Language and the Structure of Belief in Medical Communication
THE PRODUCTION OF DOCTOR-PATIENT COMMUNICATIONS: A SOCIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
The Laying on of Hands: Aspects of the Organization of Gaze, Touch, and Talk in a Medical Encounter
"Ask Me No Questions." An Analysis of Queries and Replies in Physician-Patient Dialogues
STRUCTURE AND STRUCTURING
Doctor Talk/Patient Talk: How Treatment Decisions Are Negotiated in Doctor-Patient Communication
A Diagnosis of Doctor-Patient Discourse in the Prescription of Contraception
POWER AND RESISTANCE
Policing the Lying Patient: Surveillance and Self-Regulation in Consultations with Adolescent Diabetics
Nice Doctors and Invisible Patients: The Problem of Power in Feminist Common Sense
Exploring Women's Experiences: Power and Resistance in Medical Discourse
Reflection on Gender, Power and Discourse
Author Index
Subject Index

A propos de l'auteur

Alexandra Dundras Todd, Sue C. Fisher

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Sue Fisher, Fisher Sue C., Alexandra Todd, Todd Alexandra Dundras
• Edition: Bloomsbury
• Langues: Anglais
• Recommandation d'âge: 7 à 17 ans
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 01.01.1993
• EAN: 9780893916992
• ISBN: 978-0-89391-699-2
• Pages: 320
• Poids: 539 g
• Catégories: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Médias, communication > Général, dictionnaires; Business & Economics / General, Business and Management, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Business & management, Communication Studies, Business: Business Communications