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Publication details [#67046]
McArthur, Amanda. 2019. Pain and the collision of expertise in primary care physical exams. Discourse Studies 21 (5) : 522–539.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications
Journal WWW
Annotation
Using conversation analysis and a collection of naturally occurring US primary care consultations, this paper examines the search for pain during primary care physical exams. It show how patients responding to questions like does that hurt? tacitly guide physicians to their pain using pain displays. Physicians respond to these practices by altering the trajectory of their touch in coordination with the patient’s embodied behavior.