Medical Discourse
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22367186 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Wilce, James M Wilce (0000-0001-6363-4092, Northern Arizona University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Pages | 1-7 |
| Publication date | 2020-11-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118786093.iela0255 |
| OpenAlex | W4255209249 |
| ISBN | 9781118786093 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
Linguistic anthropology is uniquely suited to the anthropological study of medicine, health, and healing. It provides evidence of a crucial role that discourse plays in medicine, asserting that medical discourse in the broadest sense – i.e. discourse in and about healing, curing, or therapy; expressions of suffering; and relevant language ideologies – has great anthropological significance. As modes of social action, writing and speaking help constitute medical institutions, curative practices, and relations of authority in and beyond particular healing encounters. Linguistic anthropologists bring to the analysis of medical discourse a sophisticated set of analytic tools that address the role of communication in and around medicine in social reproduction and the reproduction of cultural sensibilities. Such analyses also diverge from the quantitative, self‐report‐oriented, studies of “practitioner–patient communication” in the medical literature
Discourse analysis · Epistemology · Health care · Ideology · Linguistics · Medical anthropology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sociology of health and illness · Anthropology · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
Claiming Power in Doctor–Patient Talk
Patient empowerment and control
The evolving concept of "patient-centeredness" in patient-physician communication research
Topic transitions in physician-patient interviews
"Medical Discourse" in Anthropological Context
Medical Discourse
Translanguaging within Enactments of Quotidian Interpreter-Mediated Interactions
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |