Publications

Publication details [#45704]

Lehtinen, Esa. 2007. Merging doctor and client knowledge: On doctors’ ways of dealing with clients’ potentially discrepant information in genetic counseling. Journal of Pragmatics 39 (2) : 389–427.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | counseling | doctor-patient conversation | knowledge | medical conversation

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper uses ethnomethodological conversation analysis to discuss three ways in which doctors merge the potentially discrepant doctor and client knowledge during genetic counseling.