MedWorm.com provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest items from the 'Communication and Medicine' source. Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:29:59 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1071182&cid=s_36299_52_f&fid=36299&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.atypon-link.com%2FWDG%2Fdoi%2Fabs%2F10.1515%2FCAM.2007.023 Communication & Medicine 4(2): 201-201 (Source: Communication and Medicine) Communication and Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1071182 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:00:00 +0100 1071182 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1071181&cid=s_36299_52_f&fid=36299&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.atypon-link.com%2FWDG%2Fdoi%2Fabs%2F10.1515%2FCAM.2007.022 Communication & Medicine 4(2): 189-199 Abstract Examination of lexical items in naturally occurring vernacular prose shows patterns of ambiguities in how Americans discuss health issues. Samples from the Freiburg-Brown corpus of American English and varied registers of popular health writing found online reveal two principles of naming beliefs that crosscut the uses of many ambiguous terms: the semantic principle of 'lexical conflation' and the semiotic principle of 'edible iconicity'. Both are shown to reflect sources of nutritional conceptualizations. Lexical conflation is illustrated by uses of fat, cholesterol, sugar, oil, and germ, with modifiers shown to help disambiguate terms. Edible iconicity, where meaning is attached to the visible form of what is ingested and characteristics of... Communication and Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1071181 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:00:00 +0100 1071181 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1071180&cid=s_36299_52_f&fid=36299&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.atypon-link.com%2FWDG%2Fdoi%2Fabs%2F10.1515%2FCAM.2007.021 We report an investigation of the sociolinguistic characteristics of simulated encounters (role plays) in medical education, focusing in particular on frame negotiation. The role played by context in influencing the nature of out-of-frame activity is noted through comparison with another published study of simulations (Linell and Thunqvist 2003). While in general sustaining a role-playing frame that involved an orientation to exact mimicry of clinical situations, the interactional work done to sustain this appearance of 'authenticity' at certain moments was revealed by out-of-frame utterances. One participating doctor in particular used humor to exploit the ambiguous realism of the role-playing frame. The success of this doctor in acquiring and applying new communication behaviors problema... Communication and Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1071180 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:00:00 +0100 1071180 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1071179&cid=s_36299_52_f&fid=36299&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.atypon-link.com%2FWDG%2Fdoi%2Fabs%2F10.1515%2FCAM.2007.020 Communication & Medicine 4(2): 165-175 Abstract In this paper we argue that whiteboards in clinical settings play a hybrid role: communicating inter- and intraprofessional directives, mediating professional tensions, and mitigating potentially face-threatening acts. The data upon which this paper is based emanate from two independently conducted ethnographic studies: the first explored a range of nurse-nurse and nurse-doctor communication practices in operating rooms, while the second explored work routines and communication methods in oncology wards. Data collection included fieldwork using observations, interviews assisted by photographic methods, and in the first study, a personal diary. A deconstructive analysis was independently undertaken. As a communication method, the use of whiteb... Communication and Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1071179 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:00:00 +0100 1071179 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1071178&cid=s_36299_52_f&fid=36299&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.atypon-link.com%2FWDG%2Fdoi%2Fabs%2F10.1515%2FCAM.2007.019 Communication & Medicine 4(2): 153-163 Abstract Communication is believed to hold a central role in recreating an individual's sense of meaning and well-being after a loss. Narrative theory in particular points to ways that people create meaning and connection with others. Literature on bereavement suggests that the formation of connections with others, or building community, comprises an important part of the healing process. For this study, the content of bulletin board postings commemorating deceased children was studied quantitatively and qualitatively. Data were examined to learn how contributors used the Web site to connect with others who shared experience of losing a child, engage in meaningful shared activities, and create community. Findings from the data analysis suggest that th... Communication and Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1071178 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:00:00 +0100 1071178 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1071177&cid=s_36299_52_f&fid=36299&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.atypon-link.com%2FWDG%2Fdoi%2Fabs%2F10.1515%2FCAM.2007.018 Communication & Medicine 4(2): 141-152 Abstract The quality of the professional-patient relationship in the treatment of mental illness predicts patient outcome. Hence, we conducted a review of recorded professional-patient communication to identify existing research, methods, and findings. Sixteen studies focused on (i) how psychiatric symptoms are manifested in patient communication; (ii) the role of therapist communication in patient improvement; (iii) the influence of sociodemographic characteristics on doctor-patient communication; and (iv) how patients and professionals jointly construct therapeutic interactions. The findings were disparate and included (a) patient nonverbal communication is impaired in depression and schizophrenia; (b) the use of specific therapeutic skills led to i... Communication and Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1071177 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:00:00 +0100 1071177 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1071176&cid=s_36299_52_f&fid=36299&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.atypon-link.com%2FWDG%2Fdoi%2Fabs%2F10.1515%2FCAM.2007.017 Communication & Medicine 4(2): 131-140 Abstract Good communication in EOL (end-of-life) discussions is described at a general level in the literature, but there are few studies of EOL discussions at the level of interaction, with data drawn from the actual talk between physicians and families. In this article I present a discourse analysis of EOL discussions from an American ICU (intensive care unit) where the decision to withdraw life support is situated in a hybrid ethical frame co-constructed as the final phase of the EOL discussion. In Mishler's (1984) terms, the final phase of the EOL discussion merges the voice of medicine and the voice of the lifeworld, with both physicians and families initiating, developing, and repeating particular topics that encompass not only the logistics of ... Communication and Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1071176 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:00:00 +0100 1071176 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1071175&cid=s_36299_52_f&fid=36299&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.atypon-link.com%2FWDG%2Fdoi%2Fabs%2F10.1515%2FCAM.2007.016 Communication & Medicine 4(2): 129-130 Abstract In this issue of Communication & Medicine a number of themes across a range of sites are reported, including an overview of communication studies in the domain of mental illness, ethical decision making in end-of-life consultations, frame ambiguities in simulated primary care consultations, as well as the mediating role of whiteboards in the organisation of professional practice. Other contributions move outside the clinical/institutional sphere to explore narratives of bereavement experience and lexical formulations in popular health writing associated with nutrition. In what follows I offer a trailer--hopefully, nutritionally rich--to stimulate the reader's appetite. (Source: Communication and Medicine) Communication and Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1071175 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 04:00:00 +0100 1071175 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=903973&cid=s_36299_52_f&fid=36299&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.atypon-link.com%2FWDG%2Fdoi%2Fabs%2F10.1515%2FCAM.2007.016 Communication & Medicine 4(1): 127-128 (Source: Communication and Medicine) Communication and Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=903973 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:00:00 +0100 903973 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=903972&cid=s_36299_52_f&fid=36299&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.atypon-link.com%2FWDG%2Fdoi%2Fabs%2F10.1515%2FCAM.2007.015 Communication & Medicine 4(1): 125-125 (Source: Communication and Medicine) Communication and Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=903972 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:00:00 +0100 903972 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=903971&cid=s_36299_52_f&fid=36299&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.atypon-link.com%2FWDG%2Fdoi%2Fabs%2F10.1515%2FCAM.2007.014 Communication & Medicine 4(1): 121-123 (Source: Communication and Medicine) Communication and Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=903971 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:00:00 +0100 903971 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=903970&cid=s_36299_52_f&fid=36299&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.atypon-link.com%2FWDG%2Fdoi%2Fabs%2F10.1515%2FCAM.2007.013 Communication & Medicine 4(1): 119-120 (Source: Communication and Medicine) Communication and Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=903970 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:00:00 +0100 903970 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=903969&cid=s_36299_52_f&fid=36299&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.atypon-link.com%2FWDG%2Fdoi%2Fabs%2F10.1515%2FCAM.2007.012 Communication & Medicine 4(1): 117-118 (Source: Communication and Medicine) Communication and Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=903969 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:00:00 +0100 903969 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=903968&cid=s_36299_52_f&fid=36299&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.atypon-link.com%2FWDG%2Fdoi%2Fabs%2F10.1515%2FCAM.2007.011 Communication & Medicine 4(1): 111-115 (Source: Communication and Medicine) Communication and Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=903968 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:00:00 +0100 903968 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=903967&cid=s_36299_52_f&fid=36299&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.atypon-link.com%2FWDG%2Fdoi%2Fabs%2F10.1515%2FCAM.2007.010 We present an analysis of the interview narratives of two men and show how they ‘re-collage’ an identity in the face of fundamental changes in their functioning as men. We argue that these men draw upon alternative discourses to construct themselves as whole, competent, and ‘no less a man'. (Source: Communication and Medicine) Communication and Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=903967 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:00:00 +0100 903967 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=903966&cid=s_36299_52_f&fid=36299&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.atypon-link.com%2FWDG%2Fdoi%2Fabs%2F10.1515%2FCAM.2007.009 Communication & Medicine 4(1): 79-97 Using the methodology and findings of conversation analysis, we analyze changes in the talk of a man with aphasia (a language disorder acquired following brain damage) at two points in his spontaneous recovery period in the first months post-stroke. We note that in the earlier conversation (15 weeks post-stroke) two of the turn constructional methods he particularly makes use of are replacement (a form of repair) and extension. By the time of the latter conversation (30 weeks poststroke) these methods are less prevalent, while another repair operation, insertion, is now used in a particular way not seen in the earlier conversation. We suggest that these methods are means by which the aphasic speaker adapts his limited linguistic resources to the demands... Communication and Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=903966 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:00:00 +0100 903966 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=903965&cid=s_36299_52_f&fid=36299&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.atypon-link.com%2FWDG%2Fdoi%2Fabs%2F10.1515%2FCAM.2007.008 This study aims to enrich our understandings of cultural meanings of illness by making visual materials a significant part of our research. (Source: Communication and Medicine) Communication and Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=903965 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:00:00 +0100 903965 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=903964&cid=s_36299_52_f&fid=36299&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.atypon-link.com%2FWDG%2Fdoi%2Fabs%2F10.1515%2FCAM.2007.029 Communication & Medicine 4(1): 53-66 This investigation examined how the interpretive practices of a speech-language pathologist (SLP) contributed to the construction of identity among adults with traumatic brain injury (TBI) during group therapy in a hospital setting. Six group therapy sessions were video-recorded and transcribed (yielding a total of 8,056 utterances). Attention was paid to patient expressions of identity and ability, the communicative functions of these expressions, and the manner in which these expressions were evaluated by the SLP. The SLP was also interviewed regarding the nature of therapy practice. Analysis revealed that the interpretive voice of the SLP dominated in ascribing a patient identity of self as damaged goods. Implications are discussed in terms of how th... Communication and Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=903964 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:00:00 +0100 903964 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=903963&cid=s_36299_52_f&fid=36299&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.atypon-link.com%2FWDG%2Fdoi%2Fabs%2F10.1515%2FCAM.2007.006 Communication & Medicine 4(1): 51-52 (Source: Communication and Medicine) Communication and Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=903963 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:00:00 +0100 903963 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=903962&cid=s_36299_52_f&fid=36299&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.atypon-link.com%2FWDG%2Fdoi%2Fabs%2F10.1515%2FCAM.2007.005 Communication & Medicine 4(1): 37-49 Most studies evaluating companion effects on medical triadic interaction focus on the doctors' part, e.g., how the companion's presence diverts doctors' attention away from the patient. In contrast to this mainstream approach, the current research proposes an alternative framework by focusing on the patient partiesespecially on how companion participation reshapes the discourse sequences where patient parties provide information, and how it affects patient full turns and priority in providing complete first-hand information to doctors. By examining fifteen geriatric triadic conversations collected in a teaching hospital in southern Taiwan, this proposed framework concludes that in the companion's presence, the information providing sequences are restruc... Communication and Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=903962 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:00:00 +0100 903962 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=903961&cid=s_36299_52_f&fid=36299&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.atypon-link.com%2FWDG%2Fdoi%2Fabs%2F10.1515%2FCAM.2007.004 Communication & Medicine 4(1): 27-35 This paper examines the pragmatic and discourse features of a number of multimodal international healthcare insurance texts. The texts contain specialized language related to the provision and treatment of healthcare and to insurance coverage and are aimed at a fairly well-defined target readership, many of them actual or potential expatriates. They thus serve a useful function, that of providing the readership with an informed and comprehensible guide to the services and products available. Some of them have a more strictly promotional aspect, that of advertising specific insurance policies. In particular, the paper focuses on the language choices favored by these texts and the strategies they serve, noting that the distinction between their informativ... Communication and Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=903961 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:00:00 +0100 903961 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=903960&cid=s_36299_52_f&fid=36299&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.atypon-link.com%2FWDG%2Fdoi%2Fabs%2F10.1515%2FCAM.2007.003 In this study, we investigate the use of narrative in online conversations among persons suffering from chronic opiate addiction and evaluate both its positive and negative uses. Illness narratives, as argued by sociologist Arthur Frank and psychiatrist/medical anthropologist Arthur Kleinman, enable patients to give order to life experiences and receive support from others. We wished to explore under what circumstances online support coalesces and breaks apart. The narratives we examined exemplify two topics frequently discussed on the message board: the recovery process and what it means to be ‘clean’. To better understand these narratives from a theoretically based approach, we used the work of rhetorical theorist Kenneth Burke. Burke's description of two human motives, suffering and... Communication and Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=903960 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:00:00 +0100 903960 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=903959&cid=s_36299_52_f&fid=36299&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.atypon-link.com%2FWDG%2Fdoi%2Fabs%2F10.1515%2FCAM.2007.002 This article presents a linguistic analysis of data from an ongoing research project exploring HIV/AIDS education in West African Burkina Faso. I argue that we can identify different, sometimes even competing, discourses about the disease in prevention interactions. Thus, communication about HIV/AIDS in Burkina Fasoand probably in most of the Sub-Saharan countriesmight be characterized by what I will call, with reference to Bakhtin, discursive heteroglossia. There is clear evidence of such discursive heteroglossia, that is, the participants' alignment to local and global HIV discourses, deployed in the communication of health workers. In my analysis of peer educators training sessions, I draw on theoretical and methodological principles from discourse analysis and interactional linguistics... Communication and Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=903959 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:00:00 +0100 903959 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=903958&cid=s_36299_52_f&fid=36299&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.atypon-link.com%2FWDG%2Fdoi%2Fabs%2F10.1515%2FCAM.2007.001 Communication & Medicine 4(1): 1-2 (Source: Communication and Medicine) Communication and Medicine journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=903958 Tue, 29 May 2007 04:00:00 +0100 903958