Communication in healthcare settings
Subtitle: policy, participation, and new technologies
By: edited by Alison Pilnick, Jon Hindmarsh, and Virginia Teas Gill
Series: Sociology of health and illness monograph series; Sociology of health and illness monograph series
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9781405198271
Description: "This book presents an international snapshot of communication in healthcare settings and examines how policies, procedures and technological developments influence day to day practice.Brings together a series of papers describing features of healthcare interaction in settings in Australasia, the U.S.A, continental Europe and the UKContains original research data from previously under-studied settings including professions allied to medicine, telephone-mediated interactions and secondary careContributors draw on the established conversation analytic literature on healthcare interaction and broaden its scope by applying it to professionals other than doctors in primary careExamines how issues relating to policy, procedure or technology are negotiated and managed throughout daily healthcare practice"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Beyond 'doctor and patient': developments in the study of healthcare interactions (Alison Pilnick, Jon Hindmarsh and Virginia Teas Gill).; title: 2. Dialling for donations: practices and actions in the telephone solicitation of human tissues (T. Elizabeth Weathersbee and Doug Maynard).; title: 3. Managing medical advice seeking in calls to Child Health Line (Carly W. Butler, Susan Danby, Michael Emmison and Karen Thorpe).; title: 4. Practitioners' accounts for treatment actions and recommendations in physiotherapy: when do they occur, how are they structured, what do they do? (Ruth Parry).; title: 5. 'I've put weight on cos I've bin inactive, cos I've ad me knee done': moral work in the obesity clinic (Helena Webb).; title: 6. Progressivity and participation: children's management of parental assistance in paediatric chronic pain encounters (Ignasi Clemente).; title: 7. Embedding instruction in practice: contingency and collaboration during surgical training (Marcus Sanchez Svensson, Christian Heath and Paul Luff).; title: 8. Creating history: documents and patient participation in nurse-patient interviews (Aled Jones).; title: 9. Listening to what is said - transcribing what is heard: the impact of Speech Recognition Technology (SRT) on Medical Transcription (MT) (Gary C. David, Angela Cora Garcia, Anne Warfield Rawls and Donald Chand).; title: Index.