Afaf Ali

Constructing Patienthood in Brokered Medical Interaction

Iraqi-English Encounters

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyzes the actions of limited-English-speaking patients from Iraqi communities in Southern California when their interactions are translated by bilingual family members. Employing conversational analysis of patient-initiated actions, Afaf Ali examines the role patients play in challenging discursive asymmetries in healthcare.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9781666902389
• ISBN-10: 1666902381
• Artikelnr.: 68536937

Autorenporträt

Afaf Ali Nash is assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles¿s Center for the Study of International Migration.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: The Interaction of Medicine and Art: Key Concepts and
Theoretical Applications
Chapter 2: Ethnographic Notes: The Poetics of Collecting Language-Brokering
Vignettes
Chapter 3: Patients' Initiatives: Constructing Patienthood Cooperatively
and Independently
Chapter 4: Asserting Patienthood through Expansion
Chapter 5: The Distribution of Mediated Talk: Who Talks and Who talks Next?
Chapter 6: Brokering Medical Decisions