Overview

Understanding and Interaction in Clinical and Educational Settings examines the interplay of interaction, reasoning, setting, and culture that affects the creation of understandings. By analyzing and comparing routine activities and information resources in clinics and classrooms, Barry Saferstein identifies the components of interactions that enhance or limit understanding. He shows how explanations intended to produce knowledge may also mobilize aspects of professional culture that limit its scope and use. Standard formats of explanations often lead to difficulty understanding medical information or scientific concepts. Understanding and Interaction in Clinical and Educational Settings explains how changes in the use of information resources can transform professional cultures in ways that improve understandings developed by patients and students. It will be of interest to medical practitioners, educators and scholars of social and cognitive sciences.

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Author:   Barry Saferstein
Publisher:   Equinox Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Equinox Publishing Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9781845534356

ISBN 10:   1845534352
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   30 November 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

IntroductionPart One: Process Narratives1. Process Narratives in a Clinical Setting2. Process Narratives in an Educational Setting3. Understandings and Beliefs4. Process Narratives and Models of Cognition5. Conclusion to part One: Process Narratives and the Endurance of UnderstandingsPart Two: Grey Boxes6. Cognitive Science of Grey Boxes7. Grey Boxes in the Production of Process Narratives: A Case of Creating a Grey Box8. Conclusion to Part Two: Grey Boxes, Context and ContentPart Three: Discourse Frameworks9. Components of a Clinical Discourse Framework10. A Restrictive Discourse Framework11. Cognitive Science of Discourse Frameworks12. Sociocultural Complexities of Interpretation Activities and Discourse FrameworksPart Four: Effects of Professional Culture on Understanding13. Culture, Authority and Understanding- A Balance of Interpretive Contingencies14. Conclusion - Professional Culture: Persistence and ChangeAppendix A: Research Methods

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This work will enthuse discourse analysts with respect to the disciplines they can extend their work to and have an impact on. --Lauren Whittey, Discourse Studies 19(6)

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Barry Saferstein in Professor of Communication at California State University, San Marcos.

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