Hughes1982

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Hughes1982
BibType ARTICLE
Key Hughes1982
Author(s) David Hughes
Title Control in the medical consultation: organizing talk in a situation where co-participants have differential competence
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Tag(s) EMCA, Physician-patient interaction, Social control
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Year 1982
Language English
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Journal Sociology
Volume 16
Number 3
Pages 359–376
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DOI 10.1177/0038038582016003003
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Abstract

Medical sociologists who suggest that some form of interactional control can be seen to operate in medical consultations frequently relate `control' to the doctor's use of strategies which resist challenges to his professional authority and prevent patients from increasing their influence on decisions affecting treatment and disposal. This paper argues that much of the interactional `work' discernable in the encounter is concerned less with the management of conflict than with accomplishing the production of orderly and topically relevant sequences of talk in a situation in which one co-participant has only limited competence in relating talk to a body of specialist knowledge.

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