Constructing Patienthood in Brokered Medical Interaction

Iraqi–English Encounters

Afaf Ali (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

180 Seiten

2023
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-6669-0238-9 (ISBN)

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Drawing on extensive firsthand experience of face-to-face meetings between patients and healthcare practitioners, Constructing Patienthood in Brokered Medical Interaction: Iraqi–English Encounters is the first book-length work dedicated to situating limited-English-speaking patients on equal footing with their interlocutors as essential partners in the process of meaning-making. Afaf Ali builds on theoretical and empirical advancements in socio-medical research and language brokering to show how immigrant patients strike a balance between working cooperatively with their language brokers, or independently by overriding the language-assistance process to actuate multiple membership categories as patients, parents, and language brokerees. In doing so, they secure interactional zones that challenge the discursive asymmetries inherent in mediated doctor-patient encounters. This timely work makes it clear that impactful change in healthcare begins with successful communication.

Afaf Ali is a research fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles, National Heritage Language Resource Center.

Chapter 1: The Interaction of Medicine and Art: Key Concepts and Theoretical Applications
Chapter 2: Ethnographic Notes: The Poetics of Collecting Language-Brokering Vignettes
Chapter 3: Patients’ Initiatives: Constructing Patienthood Cooperatively and Independently
Chapter 4: Asserting Patienthood through Expansion
Chapter 5: The Distribution of Mediated Talk: Who Talks and Who talks Next?
Chapter 6: Brokering Medical Decisions

Erscheinungsdatum	23.11.2023
Zusatzinfo	13 BW Illustrations, 7 Tables
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 239 mm
Gewicht	458 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-6669-0238-1 / 1666902381
ISBN-13	978-1-6669-0238-9 / 9781666902389
Zustand	Neuware