Communication and medical practice : social relations in the clinic

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Communication and medical practice : social relations in the clinic

David Silverman

Sage, 1987

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  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. [270]-274

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David Silverman provides a comprehensively researched and analytically sensitive account of how doctors and patients relate. Drawing on a wide range of original fieldwork from both the UK and elsewhere and from a variety of hospital settings, both privately and publicly funded, he demonstrates the complexity of medical interactions and the importance of their context. Among the key themes of the book are: the way in which doctor-patient talk varies according to the trajectory of the patient's medical career and the method of payment for treatment; the implicit problems in paediatric medicine in negotiating between the rights and responsibilities of children and their parents; and the difficulties intrinsic to reformist medical practice and patient-centred medicine

Table of Contents

PART ONE: SITES Decision-Making Discourse Part 1 Decision-Making Discourse Part 2 A Policy Intervention The Pre-Admission Clinic Going Private Ceremonial Forms in a Medical Oncology Clinic PART TWO: CONSTITUTING SUBJECTS Coercive Interpretation in the Clinic The Social Constitution of the Down's Syndrome Child Consumerist Medicine in a Cleft-Palate Clinic Constituting Clinical Subjects PART THREE: THE DISCOURSE OF THE SOCIAL The Discourse of the Social Policing the Lying Patient Survelliance and Self-Regulation in Consultations with Adolescent Diabetics Moral Versions of Parenthood Charge-Rebuttal Sequences in Two Diabetic Clinics Andytic Scheme - Paediatric Cardiology Unit Outpatients' Routines

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