Publications

Publication details [#51615]

Real, Kevin, Rachel Bramson and Marshall Scott Poole. 2009. The Symbolic and Material Nature of Physician Identity: Implications for Physician-Patient Communication. Health Communication 24 (7) : 575–587.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative efficiency | contextualization | doctor-patient conversation | health | identity negotiation

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This field study explores how the symbolic and material nature of physician identity, in se a discursive process of situated meaning, affect physician-patient communication.