Communication in medical care
Subtitle: interaction between primary care physicians and patients
By: edited by John Heritage and Douglas Maynard.
Contributors: Heritage, John.; Maynard, Douglas W., 1946-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Studies in interactional sociolinguistics
Publisher: Cambridge University Pres
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780521621236; 9780521628990
Subjects: Physician and patient.; Communication in medicine.; Physicians (General practice); Interpersonal communication.; Social interaction.; Discourse analysis.; Physician-Patient Relations.; Communication.
Description: Providing a comprehensive discussion of communication between doctors and patients in primary care consultations, this volume brings together a team of leading contributors from the fields of linguistics, sociology and medicine to describe each phase of the primary care consultation. The authors use conversation analysis techniques to analyze the sequential unfolding of a visit and describe the dilemmas and conflicts faced by physicians and patients as they work through the visit. The result is a view of the medical encounter that reveals the perspective of both physicians and patients rationally. .
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: analyzing interaction between doctors and patients in primary care / John Heritage and Douglas W. Maynard; title: Soliciting patients' presenting concerns / Jeffrey Robinson; title: Accounting for the visit : giving reasons for seeking medical care; title: John Heritage and Jeffrey Robinson; title: Realizing the illness : patients' narratives of symptom discovery; title: Tim Halkowski; title: Explaining illness: patients' proposals and physicians' responses; title: Virginia Gill and Douglas W. Maynard; title: Taking the history : questioning during comprehensive history; title: Taking / Elizabeth Boyd and John Heritage; title: Body work : the collaborative production of the clinical object; title: Christian Heath; title: Communicating and responding to diagnosis / Anssi Perakyla; title: On diagnostic rationality: bad news, good news, and the; title: Symptom residue / Douglas W. Maynard and Richard M. Frankel; title: Treatment decisions : negotiations between doctors and patients in acute care encounters / Tanya Stivers; title: Prescriptions and prescribing : co-ordinating talk and text based; title: Activities; title: Lifestyle discussions in medical interviews / Marja-Leena Sorjonen; title: Coordinating closings in medical interviews: producing continuity of care / Candace West; title: Mis-alignments in 'after-hours' calls to a family doctor's practice:  A study in telephone medicine / Paul Drew; title: References; title: Subject index; title: Name index.