Communication in Healthcare Settings

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This book presents an international snapshot of communication inhealthcare settings and examines how policies, procedures andtechnological developments influence day to day practice. * Brings together a series of papers describing features ofhealthcare interaction in settings in Australasia, the U.S.A,continental Europe and the UK * Contains original research data from previously under-studiedsettings including professions allied to medicine,telephone-mediated interactions and secondary care * Contributors draw on the established conversation analyticliterature on healthcare interaction and broaden its scope byapplying it to professionals other than doctors in primarycare * Examines how issues relating to policy, procedure or technologyare negotiated and managed throughout daily healthcarepractice

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Alison Pilnick

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Medizinsoziologie Sociology Sociology of Health & Illness Soziologie Soziologie d. Gesundheit u. Krankheit

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"In their introductory chapter, the editors provide an overview ofCA research in the medical field so far and explicate how theythink such research should be develnot oped further, as notedabove . . . I do hope, and expect, that the collection can functionas a stimulus to indeed extend the focus of 'medical' studiesusing CA and ethnomethodology in the ways demonstrated here."(Discourse Studies, 2011) "In this sense this book offers a great deal of inspiration tothose interested in health communication from both methodologicaland practice perspectives." (Sociology of Health & Illness,2011)
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