Argumentation between Doctors and Patients
Understanding clinical argumentative discourse
Authors
Argumentation between Doctors and Patients discusses the use of argumentation in clinical settings. Starting from the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation, it aims at providing an understanding of argumentative discourse in the context of doctor-patient interaction. It explains when and how interactions between doctors and patients can be reconstructed as argumentative, what it means for doctors and patients to reasonably resolve a difference of opinion, what it implies to strive simultaneously for reasonableness and effectiveness in clinical discourse, and when such efforts derail into fallaciousness. Argumentation between Doctors and Patients is of interest to all those who seek to improve their understanding of argumentation in a medical context – whether they are students, scholars of argumentation, or medical practitioners.
Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen and Nanon Labrie are prominent argumentation theorists. In writing Argumentation between Doctors and Patients, they have benefited from the advice of an Advisory Board consisting of both medical practitioners and argumentation scholars.
[Not in series, 235] 2021. x, 155 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Preface | pp. ix–x
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Chapter 1. Argumentation between doctors and patients | pp. 1–12
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Chapter 2. Argumentation and resolving differences of opinion | pp. 13–36
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Chapter 3. The argumentation structure | pp. 37–56
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Chapter 4. Assessing the soundness of argumentation | pp. 57–80
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Chapter 5. Fallacies in medical consultations | pp. 81–106
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Chapter 6. Strategic maneuvering in medical consultations | pp. 107–130
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Epilogue | pp. 131–134
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Terminology | pp. 135–138
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Overview of rules and fallacies | pp. 139–144
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Members Advisory Board | pp. 145–148
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About the authors | pp. 149–150
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References | pp. 151–152
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Index | pp. 153–155
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Argumentation between Doctors and Patients comes at a timely moment in the Covid-19 pandemic. As a resource for increasing clarity in doctor-patient communication, the book fulfills a useful role especially pertinent to the moment. It is remarkably accessible to newcomers to argumentation theory, and correspondingly a heavy emphasis is placed on introducing fundamentals. The connection between theory of argument and the medical field comes out mainly in the examples of technical terms supplied within the chapters”
Pamela Sugrue, University of Chicago, on Linguist List 32.3582 (11 November 2021)
“It is a useful read for anyone interested in (clinical) argumentative discourse.”
Eniola Boluwaduro, Redeemer’s University & Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, in Journal of Pragmatics 191 (2022)
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Subjects & Metadata
Communication Studies
Philosophy
BIC Subject: CFG – Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
BISAC Subject: LAN004000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies