Shelby Forbes

List of John Benjamins publications in which Shelby Forbes is involved.

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Dialogues of the Clinic: Encounters across medicine and beyond

Edited by Mariaelena Bartesaghi and Shelby Forbes

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… read more

[Dialogue Studies, 36] 2026. ix, 260 pp. + index

Article

Forbes, Shelby and Mariaelena Bartesaghi 2026 Introduction: The dialogues of the clinic Dialogues of the Clinic: Encounters across medicine and beyond, Bartesaghi, Mariaelena and Shelby Forbes (eds.), pp. 1–17 | Chapter

This introduction to our anthology finds us dazzled and unsteady inside a labyrinth of flowers, searching for dialogue as something other than mere communication or interaction. We examine how dialogue has come to function as a moral and epistemic ideal in medicine — one that promises… read more