You are cordially invited to an afternoon =
symposium celebrating the publication of a new volume =
entitled:
'Communication in Healthcare Settings: Policy, =
Participation and New Technologies'
edited by Alison Pilnick, Jon =
Hindmarsh, and Virginia Teas Gill
Wiley-Blackwell
December =
17th, 2009
London, UK
Sponsored by the Foundation for =
the Sociology of Health and Illness
Now more than ever, =
successful healthcare practice is contingent upon effective interaction =
between practitioners and clients, and among members of healthcare =
teams. This symposium will highlight how conversation analysis is being =
applied to a range of healthcare activities in a variety of healthcare =
settings around the world, covering topics as wide-ranging as requesting =
tissue donations, managing the moral nature of obesity consultations, =
and carrying out surgical training. Presenters will examine how issues =
relating to policy, procedure, and technology are negotiated and managed =
throughout daily healthcare practice. The symposium will highlight the =
contribution of the new volume to the fields of medical sociology and =
conversation analysis.
Programme:
12.45 Arrival and =
Registration
1.00 Welcome and Introduction
1.10 Keynote =
Address - Paul Drew: Putting the 'medical' back into medical =
interaction
1.45 T. Elizabeth Weathersbee and Douglas W. Maynard: =
Dialing for donations: practices and actions in the telephone =
solicitation of human tissues
2.15 Helena Webb: Moral work in the =
obesity clinic
2.45 Coffee/Tea
3.15 Aled Jones: Creating =
history: documents and patient participation in nurse-patient =
interviews
3.45 Ruth Parry: Practitioners=92 accounts for =
treatment actions and recommendations in physiotherapy
4.15 =
Marcus Sanchez Svensson, Paul Luff and Christian Heath: Embedding =
instruction in practice: contingency and collaboration during surgical =
training
4.45 Closing Remarks
Symposium Fee =
=A315
*Reservations required*
Please contact Jon Hindmarsh (
jon.hindmarsh@kcl.ac.uk) to =
reserve your place at the event.
For information on the volume, =
see:
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1405198273.html=
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