Dialogues of the Clinic

Dialogues of the Clinic: Encounters across medicine and beyond is a unique anthology that centers dialogue as practice and challenge of medical encounters, taking up Mishler's famous provocation of a dichotomy between the voice of the lifeworld and the voice of medicine, or an awareness of the asymmetries of knowledge and authority in clinical encounters.
First, the authors in this book aim to define dialogue beyond interaction and to conduct a close analysis of empirical data from clinical consultations as diverse as visits in oncology, pediatrics, psychotherapy, medical student training, and speech language therapy. In doing so, they argue for the many possibilities and missed opportunities for clinicians in diverse cultural settings to engage dialogically, while constantly managing the multiple contingencies of personal, organizational, and institutional voices, texts, and artifacts. Dialogue and discourse scholars, clinical practitioners, and academics from the humanities and social sciences will appreciate this collection on how to approach dialogue conceptually and empirically, in clinical practice.