Heath2002

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Heath2002
BibType ARTICLE
Key Heath2002
Author(s) Christian Heath
Title Demonstrative suffering: the gestural (re)embodiment of symptoms
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Tag(s) EMCA, Gesture, Emotion, Suffering, Medical consultations, Medical EMCA
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Year 2002
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Journal Journal of Communication
Volume 52
Number 3
Pages 597–617
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DOI 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2002.tb02564.x
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Abstract

Despite the long-standing interest in emotion and bodily conduct, there remains relatively little research concerned with how gestures are used with talk and within interaction to reveal emotional and personal experience. In this article, the author considers the medical consultation and, in particular, the ways in which patients attempt to reveal their experience of illness to the doctor. The paper examines how gesture and other forms of bodily conduct are used to transform symptoms into suffering; to display, enact, and (re)embody medical problems and difficulties. The analysis is based on videorecordings of primary health care consultations and focuses on the social and interactional organization of demonstrative suffering.

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