Claiming power in doctor-patient talk /

Claiming power in doctor-patient talk /

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Author / Creator:Ainsworth-Vaughn, Nancy.
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 212 pages) : illustrations.
Language:English
Series:Oxford studies in sociolinguistics
Oxford studies in sociolinguistics.
Subject:
Physician and patient.
Oral communication.
Interpersonal relations.
Interpersonal relations.
Oral communication.
Physician and patient.
Communication.
Physician-Patient Relations.
Social Dominance.
Diagnosis.
Patient Participation.
Power, Psychological.
Electronic book.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11172655
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ISBN:1423765273
9781423765271
1602560366
9781602560369
9780195096064
0195096061
9780195096071
019509607X
0195096061
019509607X
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-209) and index.
Print version record.
Summary:Are patients passive, or merely deferent? How does gender affect questioning and topic control in medical encounters? What does it sound like when physician and patient co-construct a diagnosis through storytelling? Nancy Ainsworth-Vaughn, a sociolinguist, ethnographer, and cancer survivor, answers questions such as these in a study of 100 medical encounters, with balanced numbers of men and women among physicians as well as patients. Ainsworth-Vaughn draws upon linguistics and medical ethics to develop a comprehensive theory of types of power. She engages critical problems in discourse theory, expanding our understanding of topic transitions, questions, ambiguity, and co-construction.
Other form:Print version: Ainsworth-Vaughn, Nancy. Claiming power in doctor-patient talk. New York : Oxford University Press, 1998

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