Ethnographic research was conducted in the thoracic ward of a Norwegian university hospital in order to study collaborative medical problem solving...
Keywords: medical evidence, collaborative work, medical problem solving, hybridity, situated practice
05/2006 | Communication & Medicine, Walter de GruyterGood 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...
Keywords: end-of-life communications, Ethics, end-of-life decision making, voice of medicine, voice of life-world, Consciousness, topic management, repetition, hybridity
10/2007 | Communication & Medicine, Walter de GruyterThis paper examines the pragmatic and discourse features of a number of multimodal international healthcare insurance texts...
Keywords: international healthcare insurance, multimodal informational/promotional texts, hybridity, interactivity, persuasive languaging strategies
05/2007 | Communication & Medicine, Walter de Gruyter