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Publication details [#57718]

Hydén, Lars-Christer, Nina V. Gunnarsson and Helena Hemmingsson. 2013. Mothers’ accounts of healthcare encounters: Negotiating culpability and fulfilling the active mother role. Discourse & Society 24 (4) : 446–460.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

agency | doctor-patient conversation | health | moral argumentation | mother-child conversation

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper explores mothers’ assertions of initial interactions and encounters with healthcare professionals and the results where questions regarding their children’s health problems (and related child care responsibility and moral agency) are concerned.