Performing medical conversations: "between" physicians and patients
Neuwirth, Z.; Schrader, S.
Advances in Mind-Body Medicine 20(4): 8-12
2004
ISSN/ISBN: 1470-3556 PMID: 15689021 Document Number: 568268
In this paper we introduce a shift in understanding patient-physician communication from the current individualistic, behavior-changing, patient-centered perspective, toward a more performative position. This postmodern shift reconstructs the collaborative doctor-patient plotline as involving a mutually-improvising ensemble performing an interweaving of biomedical and humanistic scripts in order to more effectively negotiate medical meaning together.