The Social Organization Of Doctor-Patient Communication, Second Edition Book

	Preface to the Second Edition: Power and Resistance
	Physician's Foreword
	Introduction: Communication and Social Context - Toward Broader Definitions	1
Pt. I	Sociolinguistic and Cognitive Approaches to Discourse
1	Three Types of Interference to an Effective Exchange of Information in the Medical Interview	17
2	Doctor/Mother/Child Communication: Linguistic Analysis of a Pediatric Interaction	31
3	Hearing Is Not Believing: Language and the Structure of Belief in Medical Communication	49
Pt. II	The Production of Doctor-Patient Communications
	A Social Accomplishment
4	The Laying on of Hands: Aspects of the Organization of Gaze, Touch, and Talk in a Medical Encounter	71
5	On the Work of Talk: Studies in Misunderstandings	107
6	"Ask Me No Questions..." An Analysis of Queries and Replies in Physician-Patient Dialogues	127
	Structure and Structuring
7	Doctor Talk/Patient Talk: How Treatment Decisions Are Negotiated in Doctor-Patient Communication	161
8	A Diagnosis of Doctor-Patient Discourse in the Prescription of Contraception	183
	Power and Resistance
9	Policing the Lying Patient: Surveillance and Self-Regulation in Consultations with Adolescent Diabetics	213
10	Nice Doctors and Invisible Patients: The Problem of Power in Feminist Common Sense	243
11	Exploring Women's Experiences: Power and Resistance in Medical Discourse	267
12	Reflections on Gender, Power, and Discourse	287
	Author Index	301
	Subject Index	305