We report the first state-of-the-art review of conversation-analytic (CA) research on
communication in primary healthcare. We conducted a systematic search across multiple …

ABSTRACT I review conversation analytic research on healthcare interactions in palliative
care, and end-of-life preferences and plans conversations in other settings. The review …

Conversation Analysis (CA) tends to adopt an ambivalent attitude to the concept of power.
The concept is fundamental in sociology but secondary or even disregarded in CA. A closer …

If there was an average day for the National Health Service in England, more than 1.2
million people would attend a primary care appointment, nearly 260,000 people would …

Patient‐centred care is commonly framed as a means to guard against the problem of
medical paternalism, exemplified in historical attitudes of 'doctor knows best'. In this sense …

Video recordings of oncology interviews reveal how doctors rely on worry to establish
medical expertise, facilitate treatment decision-making, and construct worry parameters to …

Purpose Multiple knowledge sources inform healthcare. In healthcare encounters, patients
and health professionals' ideas intersect to understand illness and disease. Exploring what …

Increasing numbers of older people undergo major surgery in the United Kingdom (UK), with
many at high risk of complications due to age, co-morbidities or frailty. This article reports on …

Objective The paper focuses on cases in which children disconfirm a symptom previously
reported by their parents and analyzes how doctors and parents continue asking questions …

Genetic counseling (GC) traditionally follows a non‐directive counseling approach. Although
a cornerstone of GC teaching and theory, there has been debate on whether GC is, can be …