Pilnick2025
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Pilnick2025 |
| Author(s) | Alison Pilnick |
| Title | Medicine and Healthcare |
| Editor(s) | Andrew P. Carlin, Alex Dennis, K. Neil Jenkings, Oskar Lindwall, Michael Mair |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, Medicine, Healthcare |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year | 2025 |
| Language | English |
| City | Abingdon, UK |
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| Pages | 363–371 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780429323904-36 |
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| Book title | The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnomethodology |
| Chapter | 31 |
Abstract
Ethnomethodological and conversation analytic observations on the practice of medicine and healthcare can be traced back almost to the emergence of ethnomethodology. And whilst initial CA research in the 1970s focused on everyday talk, by the late 1970s some analysts had already begun to turn their focus to recording and analysing primary care consultations. From these beginnings in the primary care field, CA has come to be used to investigate a wide range of settings where healthcare is delivered, from the acute hospital to the clinic to helplines and patients’ own homes. We have also seen an expansion of focus from physician/patient interaction to include consideration of a wide range of health care workers, and a recognition that the study of interaction between healthcare workers is an important field in its own right. This chapter will give an overview of the existing research in this field, identifying some of the key themes that have emerged and practices that have been identified. It will end by considering more recent developments in the application of conversation analytic informed work to training interventions in healthcare, and reflect on the implications of these for future research.
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