1st Edition
Expert Talk and Risk in Health Care A Special Issue of research on Language and Social interaction
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Routledge
This special issue identifies three interrelated constructs--discourse, expertise, and the definition and management of risk--located in various healthcare sites: genetic counseling, nursing, and medical practice. The papers highlight the relationship between the management of risk situations and the nature of expertise displayed or achieved by practitioners and their patients/clients. The papers... Read more
Volume 35, Number 2, 2002. Contents: C.N. Candlin, S. Candlin, Discourse, Expertise, and the Management of Risk in Health Care Settings. S. Sarangi, A. Clarke, Zones of Expertise and the Management of Uncertainty in Genetics Risk Communication. S. Candlin, Taking Risks: An Indicator of Expertise? P. Linell, V. Adelswärd, L. Sachs, M. Bredmar, U. Lindstedt, Expert Talk in Medical Contexts: Explicit and Implicit Orientation to Risks. A. Peräkylä, Agency and Authority: Extended Responses to Diagnostic Statements in Primary Care Encounters.
Biography
Christopher N. Candlin, Sally Candlin
