W. H. R. Rivers Prize Essay (1988)

Fracturing the Language of Biomedicine: The Speech Play of U.S. Physicians

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20183160
AutoresAnne Burson‐tolpin (University of Pennsylvania, autor de correspondencia)
Año1989
Volumen3
Número3
Páginas283-293
Fecha de publicación1989-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMedical Anthropology Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0745-5194 • E-ISSN: 1548-1387
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/maq.1989.3.3.02a00070
OpenAlexW2158669329
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas23

Play with the professional language of biomedicine is endemic in American hospitals. In this article 1 present a typology of such speech play forms and suggest that biomedical speech play represents an alternative biomedical voice distinct from both that of the lifeworld and that of objective, scientific biomedicine. The voice that speaks through biomedical speech play embodies social and emotional concerns that are devalued in the professional ideology of biomedicine but that cannot be ignored by biomedical practitioners. Biomedical speech play thus presents an alternative (and necessary) reconstruction of biomedical reality

Biomedicine · Ideology · Lifeworld · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Typology · Anthropology · Empathy and Medical Education · Law · Psychology