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The Discourse of Medicine: Dialectics of Medical Interviews
Mishler, Elliot G (Harvard Medical School, Cambridge Hospital)
The Discourse of Medicine: Dialectics of Medical Interviews
Mishler, Elliot G (Harvard Medical School, Cambridge Hospital)
This is the first full-length monograph devoted to the study of the talk between physicians and patients in a medical interview. Methods are developed to describe, analyze and interpret the discourse. In the course of the work, a critique of more traditional methods, studies, and interpretations of medical interviews is presented.
224 pages