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https://doi.org/10.1016/b0-08-044854-2/04499-0
Copy DOIPublication Date: Jan 1, 2006 |
Citations: 4 |
This article summarizes work that addresses the ways in which the practice of medicine is changing, how these changes are affecting medical discourse, and how they point to medical discourse becoming increasingly dependent on and coconstituted by what may be seen as ‘nonmedical’ discourses. The article highlights medicine's increasing accountability to nonmedical professionals such as nurses, allied health clinicians, administrators, policy makers, managers, information technology specialists, and health care ‘consumers’ and their caregivers. The article suggests that medical discourse is no longer appropriately studied ‘ in vacuo ’ and that the current emphasis on doctor–patient interaction, on the one hand, and the rather decontextualized approaches to dealing with medical documentation, on the other, are out of step with contemporary reality. To counter these trends, this article takes issue with analysts of discourse rendering invisible medical dependencies on other professional and nonprofessional voices and practices by constructing the latter as contextual, taken for granted, and marginal to the analysis of medical language and discourse ‘proper’.
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