Medical Discourse

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

  Nancy Ainsworth‐vaughn, Nancy Ainsworth-Vaughn•Claiming power in doctor-patient…•1998

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• Patient empowerment and control

  Open Access•Pierre Salmon, Peter Salmon et al.•Social Science & Medicine•2003

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• The evolving concept of "patient-centeredness" in patient-physician communication research

  Open Access•Hirono Ishikawa, Hideki Hashimoto et al.•Social Science & Medicine•2013

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• Topic transitions in physician-patient interviews

  Open Access•Nancy Ainsworth‐vaughn, Nancy Ainsworth-Vaughn•Language in Society•1992

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• "Medical Discourse" in Anthropological Context

  Open Access•Joel C Kuipers•Medical Anthropology Quarterly•1989

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• Medical Discourse

  James M Wilce•Annual Review of Anthropology•2009

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• Translanguaging within Enactments of Quotidian Interpreter-Mediated Interactions

  Open Access•J F Reynolds, Marjorie Elaine Faulstich Orellana et al.•Journal of Linguistic Anthropology•2014

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