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

Table of Contents:

Studying Power
A Sense of the Moment: Theory, Methodology, Data
The Whirlpool Discourse: Many Ways of Claiming Power
Quantitative Studies of Power-Claiming Talk
Gender and Topic Control
A Genre of Questions?
Qualitative Studies: Co-Constructing Power and Identity
Is That a Rhetorical Question?
"Geez Where'd You Find THAT?": Co-Constructing Story and Self in Oncology Encounters
Diagnosis as Storytelling
Implications for Practice
Active Patients, Cooperative Physicians
Transcription Conventions.

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