Publications

Publication details [#48515]

Chatwin, John. 2008. Pre-empting ‘trouble’ in the homoeopathic consultation. Journal of Pragmatics 40 (2) : 244–256.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

alternative | conversational analysis | health | information processing | medical conversation

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper uses conversation analysis (CA) to examine how practitioners of one specific CAM (complementary and alternative medicine) modality – homoeopathy – manage this possibly difficult interactional field with new patients.