The Discourse of Hospital Communication: Tracing Complexities in Contemporary Health Organizations (Palgrave Studies in Professional and Organizational Discourse)

✍ Scribed by Rick Iedema

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 292
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Professional and Organizational Discourse
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents an array of investigation in the area of hospital communication, including internists negotiating end-of-life issues, spinal clinicians addressing the organization of surgery, and laboratory scientists coping with the introduction of a new test ordering software.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Figures and Tables......Page 10
Foreword......Page 11
Notes on the Contributors......Page 13
1 Communicating Hospital Work......Page 18
2 Institutional and Professional Orders of Ethics in the Discourse Practices of Research Recruitment in Oncology......Page 35
3 The Communicative Functions of the Hospital Medical Chart......Page 56
4 Governing the Operating Room List......Page 84
5 Dialogues for Negotiating Priorities in Unplanned Emergency Surgical Queues......Page 107
6 Personality Disorder in UK Mental Health Care: Language, Legitimation and the Psychodynamics of Organized Surveillance......Page 126
7 Renegotiating Disjunctions in Interorganizationally Provided Care......Page 155
8 Anaesthetic Talk in Surgical Encounters......Page 178
9 Corridor Conversations: Clinical Communication in Casual Spaces......Page 199
10 The Role of Signs and Representations in the Organization of Medical Work: X-rays in Medical Problem Solving......Page 218
11 Why Do Doctors Not Engage with the System?......Page 239
12 Nursing through Time and Space: Some Challenges to the Construct of Community of Practice......Page 261
Index......Page 285