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Constructing Patienthood in Brokered Medical Interaction
Iraqi–English Encounters
- 181 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
Drawing on extensive firsthand experience of face-to-face meetings between patients and healthcare practitioners, Constructing Patienthood in Brokered Medical Interaction: Iraqi–English Encounters 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 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 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: Building Patienthood Cooperatively and Independently
- Chapter 4: Asserting Patienthood through Expansion
- Chapter 5: The Distribution of Mediated Text: Who Talks and Who Talks Next?
- Chapter 6: Brokering Medical Decisions
- Conclusion
- The Iraqi Dialect
- The CA Transcribing System
- References
- Index
- About the Author