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

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

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20183160
AutoresAnne Burson‐tolpin (University of Pennsylvania, autor correspondente)
Ano1989
Volume3
Fascículo3
Páginas283-293
Data de publicação1989-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoMedical Anthropology Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0745-5194 • E-ISSN: 1548-1387
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/maq.1989.3.3.02a00070
OpenAlexW2158669329
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências 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