Exploring health communication : language in action

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Author:

Harvey, Kevin, active 1996-

ISBN:

9780415597210

9780415597227

9780203096437

Personal Author:

Harvey, Kevin, active 1996-

Publication Information:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Physical Description:

ix, 256 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Routledge introductions to applied linguistics

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Spoken health communication -- 1.The practitioner-patient relationship: doctor-patient encounters -- Introduction: spoken discourse in clinical settings -- Putting the doctor-patient encounter in context: themes and issues -- Getting critical: unpacking asymmetry in the doctor-patient consultation -- Beyond primary care: exploring encounters in mental health settings -- What's wrong with authority? Theorising power in the consultation -- A toolkit for interrogating power in medical interviews -- Summary -- 2.Spoken interaction between non-physician personnel and patients -- Introduction: the bias of doctor-patient talk -- Conversation analysis approaches to nurse-patient interaction -- Nursing interaction in multilingual settings -- Other voices: pharmacists, physiotherapists and chaplains -- Cooperation, implicature and relevance: pragmatics theories and health communication -- Summary -- 3.Patients' narratives of health and illness --

Contents note continued: Introduction: the need for narrative -- Narratives and empathy -- Narratives and identity -- Approaches to the study of illness narratives -- Narrative theory in health and illness research: harnessing analytic opportunities -- Summary -- pt. II Written health communication -- 4.The patient record -- Introduction: written language and the patient case record -- From talk to text: the practice of record writing -- Linguistic interventions: frameworks for interrogating clinical texts -- Collaborative construction: patient records as multi-authored texts -- Theorising the patient record: perspectives on language and researcher involvement -- Making sense of the patient record: are linguistic approaches alone sufficient? -- Summary -- 5.Print media representations of health and illness -- Public health communication: exploring print media representations -- Metaphors and framing --

Contents note continued: Linguistic tools for interrogating print media reporting on health and illness -- Discourse and frame analysis of print media articles: theoretical underpinnings -- Summary -- 6.The patient information leaflet -- Problems of interpretation: introducing the patient information leaflet -- Communicating side effects and frequency details (or the side effects of side effects information) -- Linguistic interventions: unpacking the package insert -- The patient information leaflet: theoretical underpinnings -- Summary -- pt. III Computer-mediated health communication -- 7.Electronic health communication: peer-to-peer online interaction -- Online peer-to-peer communication: challenges and opportunities -- Analysing discussions in online support communities: a micro-level approach -- Politeness and peer-to-peer advice giving -- Theoretical and methodological frameworks for studying online peer-to-peer communication -- Summary --

Contents note continued: 8.Seeking online help from health professionals -- Introducing computer-mediated health discourse: is it speech or writing? -- Disembodied encounters: establishing credibility and professional identities online -- Corpus linguistics: a novel approach to health communication -- Using keywords and concordances to interrogate online health communication -- What health issues trouble young people? Generating a keyword profile of concerns -- Concordance analysis of HIV/AIDS related concerns -- Theoretical accounts of expressive behaviour: the online disinhibition effect -- Summary.

Subject Term:

Medicine -- Information services.

Medical informatics.

Communication in medicine.

Added Author:

Koteyko, Nelya.

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Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics is a series of introductory level textbooks covering the core topics in Applied Linguistics, primarily designed for those beginning postgraduate studies, or taking an introductory MA course as well as advanced undergraduates. Titles in the series are also ideal for language professionals returning to academic study.

The books take an innovative 'practice to theory' approach, with a 'back-to-front' structure. This leads the reader from real-world problems and issues, through a discussion of intervention and how to engage with these concerns, before finally relating these practical issues to theoretical foundations. Additional features include tasks with commentaries, a glossary of key terms, and an annotated further reading section.

Exploring Health Communication brings together many of the various linguistic strands in health communication, while maintaining an interdisciplinary focus on method and theory.

It critically explores and discusses a number of underlying themes that constitute the broad field of health communication including spoken, written and electronic health communication. The rise of the internet has led to an explosion of interactive online health resources which have profoundly affected the way in which healthcare is delivered, and with this, have brought about changes in the relationship between provider and patient. This textbook uses examples of real life health language data throughout, in order to fully explore the topics covered.

Exploring Health Communication is essential reading for postgraduate and upper undergraduate students of applied linguistics and health communication.