Medical Discourse
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2295288 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James M Wilce (0000-0001-6363-4092, Northern Arizona University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 199-215 |
| Publication date | 2009-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Anthropology (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0084-6570 • E-ISSN: 1545-4290 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev-anthro-091908-164450 |
| OpenAlex | W4234239979 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 31 |
| References cited | 117 |
Discourse plays an important role in medicine, and medical discourse in the broadest sense (discourse in and about healing, curing, or therapy; expressions of suffering; and relevant language ideologies) has profound 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. This review describes cultural variation in medical discourse and variation across genres and registers. It then surveys two approaches to analyzing medical discourse: conversation analysis (CA) and discourse studies echoing Foucault's work, attempting to spur dialogue between them. Such dialogue could be fruitful because, despite hesitancy to invoke macrosocial variables, conversation analysts as well as Foucaultian discourse analysts have reflected on medical authority. Finally, the article reviews recent attempts to contextualize closely analyzed interactions-written exchanges as well as face-to-face clinical encounters-vis-à-vis the global circulation of linguistic forms and ideologies
Civil discourse · Conversation · Discourse analysis · Epistemology · Face (sociological concept · Ideology · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Communication · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Law
Science Talk and Scientific Reference
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Reframing the Science and Anthropology of Autism
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Linguistic and communication exclusion in Covid-19 awareness campaigns in Malawi
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The power of language on patient‐centredness
Technologies and dietary change
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Time, Knowledge, and Power in Psychotherapy
Negotiating desires and options
Good mothers, lazy mothers
Risk and decision-making
How Communicative Approaches Enrich the Study of Care
Divergent Discourses
Documenting language barriers in a general hospital psychiatry setting
The Ethics and Aesthetics of Care
Portable Values, Inequities, and Techno-Optimism in Global Health Storytelling
Reaching Out to the People
Muddying the Waters
Patient and clinician communication practices during the DSM-5 cultural formulation interview field trial
The Canon - 5
Communicability, Racial Discourse, and Disease
Appropriation of voice and presentation of self as a fellow physician
Medical discourse evidentiality and the construction of professional responsibility
Hybridity in gatekeeping discourse
Body Movement and Speech in Medical Interaction
The Everyday Language of White Racism
Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots
Shelter Blues
Language, Charisma, and Creativity
Communication in Medical Care
Healing Sounds from the Malaysian Rainforest
Aids Counselling
An Interactional Structure of Medical Activities During Acute Visits and Its Implications for Patients' Participation
Anthropology in the Clinic
Parent Resistance to Physicians' Treatment Recommendations
Sound Film Analysis of Normal and Pathological Behavior Patterns
Patient-Centered Communication, Ratings of Care, and Concordance of Patient and Physician Race
Language Barriers to Health Care in the United States
Laughter as a patient's resource
Conversation analysis, doctor–patient interaction and medical communication
Studies in ethnomethodology
Talk at work
The Birth of the Clinic
Inventing our Selves
Talk, Work and Institutional Order
Pain as Human Experience
The Evolution of Medical Research Writing from 1735 to 1985
'Relatively speaking'
Demonstrative Suffering
Claiming Power in Doctor–Patient Talk
Constructing Panic
Stories in the Time of Cholera
Kraepelin's 'diagnostic cards'
Voice as communicative action
Misunderstanding as therapy
Diagnosis Postponed
Hidden dimensions of power and resistance in the translation process
Formulating the Triangle of Doom
Global cities, glocal states
Pedagogy, pathology and ideology
Agency and Authority
Authority and Accountability
Structural Anthropology
Recovering the Word
Medicalizing Ethnicity
Questioning Children
Shamanism and Its Discontents
From DSM-I to III-R; voices of self, mastery and the other
Online commentary during the physical examination
Narrative strategies in medical discourse
Fluent Bodies
Language and Social Relations
Patient empowerment and control
Physician-patient interaction
Oncology and narrative time
Communicative competence in the delivery of bad news
Aids-talk and the constitution of cultural models
Participating in decisions about treatment
The ambiguity of symbols in the structure of healing
Looking means listening
When nurses double as interpreters
Time, space and opportunity in the outpatient consultation
Genetic counseling gone awry
In the subjunctive mode
Communicating a terminal prognosis in a palliative care setting
The role of progress notes in the professional socialization of medical residents
The End of the Body
Divining Troubles , or Divining Troubles
Scientizing Bangladeshi psychiatry
Secrets keep you sick
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Madness, Fear, and Control in Bangladesh
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Ideologies of the Speaking Subject in the Psychotherapeutic Theory and Practice of Carl Rogers
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The Credible and the Credulous
The Romance of Resistance
Universal Aspects of Symbolic Healing
Discourses of Culture and Illness in South African Mental Health Care and Indigenous Healing, Part I
Problems and Prospects in the Study of Physician-Patient Interaction
Practices of translation and the making of migrant subjectivities in contemporary Italy
The Tacit Order of Teamwork
Children as informal interpreters in GP consultations
Agency
"Cultural" Concepts and the Language-Culture Nexus
Just Some Spirits
Deciding how to decide
| Unique citing works | 31 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,07 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2025 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 30 |