[Studies in Symbolic Interaction] 40th Anniversary of Studies in Symbolic Interaction Volume 40 || Navigating the Terrain of Medical Diagnosis and Treatment: Patient Decision Making and Uncertainty

✍ Scribed by Denzin, Norman K.

• Book ID: 121791958
• Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 222 KB
• Edition: 1
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 1781907838
• DOI: 10.1108/S0163-2396(2013)0000040019

✦ Synopsis

To mark 40 volumes of Studies in Symbolic Interaction, this volume includes a special introduction from Series Editor, Norman K. Denzin. This 40th volume advances critical discourse on several fronts at the same time, including a report from the First Contemporary Ethnography Across the Disciplines hui, Waikato, New Zealand; New Empirical Studies by D. Coates, J. Johnson, D. Altheide, C. J. Schneider and D. Trotter, R. J. Berger, C. Corroto, J. Flad, and R. Quinney, and B. Jarrett (respectively): new religious movements, the California School of Symbolic Interaction, Terrorism and the National Security University, the 2011 Vancouver Riot, The Terrains of Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, and mediation processes. In a separate section to highlight the diverse and challenging aspects of symbolic interactionism; Ryan Turner asks if animals have selves? Michael Katovich and Robert Young and Carol Thompson use Turners article as a springboard for insightful commentary on the selves of other animals and the selves of humans.