Doctor/patient interaction has been the object of various reform efforts in Western countries
since the 1960s. It has consistently been depicted as enacting relationships of dominance or …

Background There is growing recognition that a diverse range of healthcare professionals
need competence in palliative approaches to care. Effective communication is a core …

The patient–doctor interaction has changed profoundly in the past decades. In reaction to
paternalistic communication patterns, health policy makers have advocated for patient …

This article endeavors to replace the sociology of professions with the more comprehensive
and timely sociology of expertise. It suggests that we need to distinguish between experts …

Per Linell took his degree in linguistics and is currently professor of language and culture,
with a specialisation on communication and spoken interaction, at the University of …

Talk in Action examines the language, identity, and interaction of social institutions,
introducing students to the research methodology of Conversation Analysis. Features a …

In this article, I propose and define the new concept of cultural health capital, based on
cultural capital theories, to help account for how patient-provider interactions unfold in ways …

Outlines how the social dimensions of medical diagnosis can deepen our understanding of
health. Diagnosis is central to medicine. It creates order, explains illness, identifies …

Like many publishing ventures this book originated at a lunch with my then Editor. Although
it was a very fine lunch, I was not initially receptive to Patrick Brindle's suggestion that I write …

When the first edition of this book came out in 2001 (under the title Evidence-based Patient
Choice: Inevitable or Impossible?), it examined the emerging themes of patient choice and …