Talking about treatment : recommendations for breast cancer adjuvant therapy / Felicia D. Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, Felicia D., author.

Series:

Oxford studies in sociolinguistics.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford studies in sociolinguistics

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Breast--Cancer--Adjuvant treatment.

Breast.

Physician and patient.

Patient education.

Communication in medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (144 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is an analysis of the very charged and complex conversations that occur between breast cancer patients and their doctors. Robert focuses in particular on their conversations about possible avenues of treatment, and shows them to be, on the one hand, an active and mutual collaboration of information, and on the other, a subtle delineation of the roles of "expert" and "novice." Her work also highlights the balance a doctor must strike between not guaranteeing a cure while promoting one particular treatment option. This work will interest those in the well-established field of doctor-patient interaction as well as sociolinguists and discourse analysts, and those interested in the intersection between talk and institutional roles.

Contents:

CONTENTS; 1. Research Concerns and Review of Literature; 2. Analytic Approach; 3. Phased Organization of the Adjuvant Therapy Visit; 4. Discourse Identities: Establishing Participant Roles as Doctor and Patient; 5. The Recommendation; 6. Conclusion; APPENDIX A: Patient Information; APPENDIX B: Transcription Symbols; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Previously issued in print: New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-772258-X

1-280-76058-3

9786610760589

0-19-535282-3

OCLC:

434891085