The Social Organization of Doctor-Patient Communication

by Sue Fisher, Alexandra Dundas Todd, Sue C. Fisher

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0893916994
• ISBN13: 9780893916992
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"