Constructing Patienthood in Brokered Medical Interaction

Iraqi–English Encounters

Afaf Ali (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

180 Seiten

2023
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-0238-9 (ISBN)

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Drawing on extensive firsthand experience of face-to-face meetings between patients and healthcare practitioners, Constructing Patienthood is the first book-length work dedicated to situating limited-English-speaking patients on equal footing with their interlocutors as essential partners in the process of meaning-making. Afaf Ali Nash builds on theoretical and empirical advancements in socio-medical research and language brokering to show how immigrant patients strike a balance between working cooperatively with their language brokers, or independently by overriding the language-assistance process to actuate multiple membership categories as patients, parents, and language brokerees. In doing so, they secure interactional zones that challenge the discursive asymmetries inherent in mediated doctor-patient encounters. This timely work makes it clear that impactful change in healthcare begins with successful communication.

Afaf Ali Nash is assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles’s Center for the Study of International Migration.

Chapter 1: The Interaction of Medicine and Art: Key Concepts and Theoretical Applications

Chapter 2: Ethnographic Notes: The Poetics of Collecting Language-Brokering Vignettes

Chapter 3: Patients’ Initiatives: Constructing Patienthood Cooperatively and Independently

Chapter 4: Asserting Patienthood through Expansion

Chapter 5: The Distribution of Mediated Talk: Who Talks and Who talks Next?

Chapter 6: Brokering Medical Decisions

Erscheinungsdatum	23.11.2023
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 239 mm
Gewicht	458 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-6669-0238-1 / 1666902381
ISBN-13	978-1-6669-0238-9 / 9781666902389
Zustand	Neuware