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The Social Organization of Doctor-Patient Communication, Second Edition

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The Social Organization of Doctor-Patient Communication, Second Edition - Todd, Alexandra Dundas, and Fisher, Sue
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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 ...

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The Social Organization of Doctor-Patient Communication, Second Edition 1993, Praeger, New York

ISBN-13: 9780893916947

2nd edition

Hardcover