Communication in Healthcare Settings

Jon Hindmarsh has edited a special issue of the journal Sociology of Health and Illness with Alison Pilnick (University of Nottingham) and Virginia Teas Gill (Illinois State University). The issue explores the ways in which conversation analysis is being applied to study a range of healthcare activities in a variety of healthcare settings around the world, covering topics as wide-ranging as requesting tissue donations, managing the moral nature of obesity consultations and conducting surgical training. Contributors examine how issues relating to policy, procedure, and technology are negotiated and managed throughout daily healthcare practice.

The issue will also shortly be published as a book (Wiley-Blackwell) and the editors have organised a symposium to be held in London on December 17th 2009 to mark its publication. For further details about the symposium please contact: jon.hindmarsh@kcl.ac.uk

The issue can be accessed from the journal website Wily Interscience. The journal is ranked 7 out of 99  world sociology journals.