The Discourse of Hospital Communication: Tracing Complexities in Contemporary Health Organizations

Foreword Notes on Contributors Tables and Figures Communicating Hospital Work; R.Iedema Institutional and Professional Orders of Ethics in the Discourse Practices of Research Recruitment in Oncology; E.Barton The Communicative Functions of the Hospital Medical Chart; P.Hobbs Governing the Operating Room List; R.Riley & E.Manias Dialogues for Negotiating Priorities in Unplanned Emergency Surgery Queues; M.Lum & A.Fitzgerald Personality Disorder in UK Mental Health Care: Language, Legitimation and the Psychodynamics of Organised Surveillance; B.J.Brown & P.Crawford Re-negotiating Disjunctions in Inter-organisationally Provided Care; H.Kerosuo Anaesthetic Talk in Surgical Encounters; C.Pope, M.Mort, D.Goodwin & A.Smith Corridor Conversations: Clinical Communication in Casual Spaces; D.Long, R.Iedema & B.B.Lee The Role of Signs and Representations in the Organisation of Medical Work: X-rays in Medical Problem Solving; P.Maseide Why Don't Doctors Engage with the System?; C.Jorm, J.Travaglia & R.Iedema Nursing Through Time and Space: Some Challenges to the Construct of Community of Practice; S.Candlin & C.N.Candlin