Presenting a series of empirical studies by scholars working with approaches from ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, this book studies naturally occurring work and training encounters among medical and healthcare professionals or between professionals and patients.
Presenting a series of empirical studies by scholars working with approaches from ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, Medical and Healthcare Interactions studies naturally occurring work and training encounters among medical and healthcare professionals or between professionals and patients.
Using video analysis and detailed description, it considers the methods and procedures through which professionals and clients produce actions and interpret those of others, exploring questions of member competence and socialization within situated courses of interaction.
The book offers fruitful contributions for training and education in the field of healthcare and will appeal to scholars in the human and social sciences with interests in interaction, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis.
Introduction: Competence and socialization in medical and healthcare
interactions
Chapter 1: When neurologists solicit patients treatment
preferences: The relevance of talk as action for understanding why shared
decision-making is so limited in practice
Chapter 2: Working out
interprofessional collaboration: Flight nurses practical management of
prehospital emergency care
Chapter 3: Senior staff member walks ahead,
nursing intern follows: Mobility practices in hospital corridors
Chapter 4:
Asking questions in the operating room
Chapter 5: Monitoring, coordinating,
and correcting professional conduct: Soliciting absent requests during
surgery
Chapter 6: Teaching and learning how to identify an audible order in
traffic: Street-crossing instructional sequences for the visually impaired
Chapter 7: Instructing and socializing patients with aphasia to gaze at the
therapists mouth to produce speech sounds in language therapy
Chapter 8: How
to use a mobile app at home: Learning-by-doing introductions in physiotherapy
consultations
Chapter 9: Socialization and accountability: Instructional
responses to peer feedback in healthcare simulation debriefing
Sara Keel is a Senior Teaching and Research Assistant at the Institute of Education of the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Working within an ethnomethodological and conversation analytic perspective, she investigates members understanding and embodied organization of ordinary, institutional, and professional practices. Her research projects focus on distinct settings, such as everyday family life, migrants' press conferences, interprofessional hospital meetings, and more recently physiotherapy consultations to address socialization, membership categorization, patient participation, or the use of digital tools in healthcare as a members phenomenon. She has published in various international journals, her doctoral research, Socialization: Parent-Child Interaction in Everyday Life, has been published by Routledge (2016), and she has co-edited a collection on institutional interactions and special issues, most recently on touch and closeness in naturally organized activities.
