Communication in Medical Care : Interaction Between Primary Care Physicians and Patients (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics) by John Heritage (Editor), Douglas W. Maynard (Editor), Paul Drew (Series Editor)
3. Accounting for the visit: giving reasons for seeking medical care
John Heritage and Jeffrey Robinson;
4. Realizing the illness: patients’ narratives of symptom discovery
Tim Halkowski;
5. Explaining illness: patients’ proposals and physicians’ responses
Virginia Gill and Douglas W. Maynard;
6. Taking the history: questioning during comprehensive history taking
Elizabeth Boyd and John Heritage;
7. Body work: the collaborative production of the clinical object
Christian Heath;
8. Communicating and responding to diagnosis
Anssi Peräkylä;
9. On diagnostic rationality: bad news, good news, and the symptom residue
Douglas W. Maynard and Richard M. Frankel;
10. Treatment decisions: negotiations between doctors and patients in acute care encounters
Tanya Stivers;
11. Prescriptions and prescribing: co-ordinating talk and text-based activities
David Greatbach;
12. Lifestyle discussions in medical interviews
Marja-Leena Sorjonen, Liisa Raevaara, Markku Haakana, Tuukka Tammi and Anssi Peräkylä;
13. Co-ordinating closings in medical interviews: producing continuity of care
Candace West;
14. Mis-alignments in ‘after-hours’ calls to a British GP’s practice: a study in telephone medicine
Paul Drew.
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