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Communication and Medicine
Volume 4(2), 2007

 
CONTENTS
 
Barton, Ellen Situating end-of-life decision making in a hybrid ethical frame. 131-140
 
  Good communication in EOL (end-of-life) discussions is described at a general level in the literature, but there are few studies of EOL discussions on the level of interaction, with data drawn from the actual talk between physicians and families 
 
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conversation
health
ethics
death
agreement
 
 
Hassan, Imren, McCabe, Rosemarie, and Priebe, Stefan Professional-patient communication in the treatment of mental illness: A review. 141-152
 
  The quality of the professional-patient relationship in the treatment of mental illness predicts patient outcome 
 
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mental health
nonverbal
competence
gender
demographics
emotion
reticence
health
 
 
Hastings, Sally O., Musambira, George W., and Hoover, Judith D. Community as a key to healing after the death of a child. 153-163
 
  Communication is believed to hold a central role in recreating an individual's sense of meaning and well-being after a loss 
 
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semiotic theory
death
children
cognition
memory
narrative
 
 
Riley, Robin, Forsyth, Rowena, Manias, Elizabeth, and Iedema, Rick Whiteboards: Mediating professional tensions in clinical practice. 165-175
 
  In this paper we argue that whiteboards in clinical settings play a hybrid role: communicating inter- and intraprofessional directives, mediating professional tensions, and mitigating potentially face-threatening acts 
 
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organizational
conflict
health
interpersonal
visualization
 
 
Seale, Clive, Butler, Christopher C., Hutchby, Ian, Kinnersley, Paul, and Rollnick, Stephen Negotiating frame ambiguity: A study of simulated encounters in medical education. 177-187
 
  We report an investigation of the sociolinguistic characteristics of simulated encounters (role plays) in medical education, focusing in particular on frame negotiation 
 
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interpersonal
conversation
health
education
humor
 
 
Stvan, Laurel Smith Lexical conflation and edible iconicity: Two sources of ambiguity in American vernacular health terminology. 189-199
 
  Examination of lexical items in naturally occurring vernacular prose shows patterns of ambiguities in how Americans discuss health issues 
 
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health
cognition
semiotic theory
metaphor
language
persuasion