Palliative Care Conversations: Clinical and Applied Linguistic Perspectives (Language and Social Life [LSL], 12) - Hardcover

Gramling, David; Gramling, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1501512684 ISBN 13: 9781501512681

Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton, 2019

Synopsis

There is no script, either for dying or for the time just preceding death. Of course, none of us – even those who specialize in communicating about alleviating suffering in end-of-life contexts - has done dying before ourselves.
-Introduction of Palliative Care Conversations

Palliative Care Conversations by David and Robert Gramling emerged out of the interactional work of hundreds of people talking with one another about living and dying in settings of serious illness. These people are women and men, gay and straight, of color and white, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Wicca, agnostic, and atheist, low-income and affluent, monolingual and multilingual, old and young.

The interactional work these people do, for and with one another, is the work of emotion, understanding, spirituality, empathy, morality, comfort, expertise, logistics, nourishment, community, care, knowledge, humor, doubt, and imagination.

Palliative Care Conversations is the first of its kind to offer intensive conversation analysis on patient-clinician interactions in the context of palliative medicine. The book focuses on a series of individual case studies of conversations that revolve, in each case, around one key critical term that is often evoked or understood differently by clinicians and patients.

About this title

About the Author

David Gramling is an associate professor at the University of Arizona in the College of Humanities, Department of German Studies. Dr. Gramling’s interest in Religious Studies lies primarily in the relationship between Islam and secularism in the Turkish, German, and US American contexts. He has published two articles on the topic, and the third is currently under review. Gramling researches end-of-life decision making conversations (in clinical settings) and does sociolinguistic analyses that often involve religious and spiritual questions.

Robert Gramling is as associate professor and research director at the University of Vermont Medical Center, with a focus in palliative medicine and hospice care. Dr. Gramling has authored more than 70 publications and received research funding from the National Institutes of Health, The National Palliative Care Research Center, the Greenwall Bioethics Foundation and the American Cancer Society and is a recognized leader in palliative and hospice care.

About this edition

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1501512684
• ISBN 13: 9781501512681
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 265