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‘I didn't think I was at risk’: Interdiscursive relations in narratives of sexual practices and exposure to HIV

This article is concerned with the discursive construction of sexual practices and ‘risk’ in gay men's accounts of exposure to HIV...

Keywords: discourse analysis, language, intertextuality, interdiscursivity, HIV

09/2004 | Communication & Medicine, Walter de Gruyter

Structure and variation in end-of-life discussions in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit

The research reported here is an exploratory discourse analysis of a corpus of six end-of-life discussions in a Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU), describing the structure and variations of the four phases of an end-of-life discussion in terms of the function of each of these phases: the Opening (Phase 1), Description of Current Status (Phase 2), Holistic Decision Making (Phase 3), and Logistics of Dying (Phase 4)...

Keywords: physician?patient interaction, end-of-life care, Decision Making, Intensive Care, bad news, palliative care, discourse analysis

01/2005 | Communication & Medicine, Walter de Gruyter

End-of-life decision making is more than rational

Most medical models of end-of-life decision making by patients assume a rational autonomous adult obtaining and deliberating over information to arrive at some conclusion...

Keywords: decision making models, discourse analysis, bioethics, do not resuscitate (DNR), rational, emotions

01/2005 | Communication & Medicine, Walter de Gruyter

An enquiry into scientific and media discourse in the MMR controversy: Authority and factuality

In this paper, we investigate two scientific articles at opposite ends of the MMR debate—Wakefield et al...

Keywords: health communication, discourse analysis, authority, factuality, modality