Exploring Clinical Communication in Asia : Culture, Discipline, Best Practice and Clinicians' Voices in the Chinese Context

Audrey Chan

ISBN 10: 1350298115 / ISBN 13: 9781350298118

Published by Bloomsbury Academic, 2025

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Drawing on socially-oriented functional linguistics, this book offers a detailed and systematic overview of the role that language plays in clinician-patient communication in Asian contexts. Putting forward a communication model specific to this particular sociocultural and medical setting, it provides clear and research-driven recommendations for healthcare professionals. Building on cutting-edge empirical research on the health communication landscape in Asia, this book addresses topics of interest to researchers in health communication and applied linguistics more broadly. It also provides healthcare professionals with the resources necessary for a critical reflection of their professional practice. The book makes use of data gathered through a variety of methods, including audio and video recordings of clinician-patient communication, semi-structured interviews, and ethnographic observations. It also uses a cross-disciplinary approach, combining the expertise of linguists, clinicians and health communication researchers, to identify communication features of effective and ineffective interactions, focusing on the communication breakdowns and vulnerable points which jeopardize the quality and safety of the patient experience.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Exploring Clinical Communication in Asia : Culture, Discipline, Best Practice and Clinicians' Voices in the Chinese Context
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350298115
• ISBN 13: 9781350298118
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 240W x 161H x 18D millimeters 240 millimeters width by 161 millimeters height by 18 millimeters depth
• Weight: 537 grams

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Synopsis

Drawing on socially-oriented functional linguistics, this book offers a detailed and systematic overview of the role that language plays in clinician-patient communication in Asian contexts. Putting forward a communication model specific to this particular sociocultural and medical setting, it provides clear and research-driven recommendations for healthcare professionals. Building on cutting-edge empirical research on the health communication landscape in Asia, this book addresses topics of interest to researchers in health communication and applied linguistics more broadly. It also provides healthcare professionals with the resources necessary for a critical reflection of their professional practice. The book makes use of data gathered through a variety of methods, including audio and video recordings of clinician-patient communication, semi-structured interviews, and ethnographic observations. It also uses a cross-disciplinary approach, combining the expertise of linguists, clinicians and health communication researchers, to identify communication features of effective and ineffective interactions, focusing on the communication breakdowns and vulnerable points which jeopardize the quality and safety of the patient experience.

About the Authors

Jack Pun is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Audrey Chan is a PhD researcher in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Dennis Tay is Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.