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This special issue identifies three interrelated
constructs--discourse, expertise, and the definition and management
of risk--located in various healthcare sites: genetic counseling,
nursing, and medical practice. The papers highlight the
relationship between the management of risk situations and the
nature of expertise displayed or achieved by practitioners and
their patients/clients. The papers suggest that healthcare outcomes
can be related closely to the quality of the discoursal encounters
between professional practitioners and their patients/clients,
and/or among professional practitioners themselves. Presenting
differentiated goals and outcomes from a range of professional
encounters, the research focuses on the resource of discoursal
strategies drawn upon in the achievement of discoursal and
professional goals by both professional and lay participants.
Communication and Professional Relationships in Healthcare Practice
focuses on the crucial role that spoken interactions play in
shaping relationships in contemporary healthcare practice. The
authors apply theoretical concepts of communication to the
workplace of healthcare, drawing upon scenarios based in the
settings of clinical experience. The book presents a wide range of
interactions (including consultations, team meetings, dialogues and
casual conversations) between health professionals, their
colleagues and their clients or patients in a variety of settings.
Drawing on the latest research in applied linguistics and
professional communication, the authors introduce readers to a
number of approaches that can be used to analyse these
interactions. Using these techniques, readers will discover exactly
how central themes of healthcare practice (including trust,
empathy, expertise and breaking bad news) are constructed through
the communicative choices that participants make in these
interactions. Designed specifically for medical, nursing and allied
health practitioners with an interest in communication, the book
makes the techniques of discourse analysis accessible and provides
ample opportunities for individual practitioners to apply this
knowledge to their own professional contexts.
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