Claiming power in doctor-patient talk /

Are patients passive, or merely deferent? How does gender affect questioning and topic control in medical encounters? What does it sound like when physician and patient co-construct a diagnosis through storytelling? Nancy Ainsworth-Vaughn, a sociolinguist, ethnographer, and cancer survivor, answers...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Ainsworth-Vaughn, Nancy.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Series:Oxford studies in sociolinguistics.
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