Routinization and Sensitivity

Interaction in Oncological Follow-Up Consultations

Bibliographic Data

ID4882786
AuthorsInger Sandén (Linköping University, corresponding author), Per Linell, Hans Starkhammar (Linköping University), Ullabeth Sätterlund Larsson (Trollhättan/Uddevalla University, Sweden)
Year2001
Volume5
Issue2
Pages139-163
Publication date2001-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHealth An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1363-4593 • E-ISSN: 1461-7196
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/136345930100500201
OpenAlexW2043504940
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited29

The empirical data of this study were gathered in the form of audio-taped recordings of dialogues between 21 patients, who had had operations for testicular cancer and three physicians during follow-up consultations. The aim is to inquire into how routine practices affect the goals of checking up the medical conditions and providing patients with reassurance, and how practices affect the treatment of sensitive topics and the patients' possibilities of bringing up their own problems are affected. The results show that the routines built up by the medical care programme are used as recurrent opportunities for the parties to confirm that the situation is under control and as resources when they talk about the sensitive topics of sexuality and fertility. How the routinization affected the patients' possibilities of bringing up their own problems cannot be fully determined. Of the 50 initiatives by patients to present their problems, only nine did so solely on their own initiative

Human sexuality · Sociology · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Medicine · Nursing · Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies

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