Palliative Care Conversations: Clinical and Applied Linguistic Perspectives
- ISBN-10
- 1501504576
- ISBN-13
- 9781501504570
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Pages
- 265
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-01-14
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
- Authors
- David Gramling, Robert Gramling
Description
This book will be the first of its kind to offer intensive conversation analysis on patient-clinician interactions in the context of palliative medicine. The book focuses on a series of individual case studies of conversations that revolve, in each case, around one key critical term that is often evoked or understood differently by clinicians and patients.
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