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Are patients passive, or merely deferent? How does gender affect questioning and topic control in medical encounters? What does it sound like when physician and patient co-construct a diagnosis through storytelling? Nancy Ainsworth-Vaughn, a sociolinguist, ethnographer, and cancer survivor, answers questions such as these in a study of 100 medical encounters, with balanced numbers of men and women among physicians as well as patients. Ainsworth-Vaughn draws upon linguistics and medical ethics to develop a comprehensive theory of types of power. She engages critical problems in discourse theory, expanding our understanding of topic transitions, questions, ambiguity, and co-construction.

Interpersonal relations. --- Oral communication. --- Physician and patient. --- Interpersonal relations --- Oral communication --- Physician and patient --- Doctor and patient --- Doctor-patient relationships --- Patient and doctor --- Patient and physician --- Patient-doctor relationships --- Patient-physician relationships --- Patients and doctors --- Patients and physicians --- Physician-patient relationships --- Physicians and patients --- Fear of doctors --- Narrative medicine --- Oral transmission --- Speech communication --- Verbal communication --- Communication --- Human relations --- Interpersonal relationships --- Personal relations --- Relations, Interpersonal --- Relationships, Interpersonal --- Social behavior --- Social psychology --- Object relations (Psychoanalysis) --- Arts-patiënt-relatie. --- Arzt. --- Communication. --- Diagnosis. --- Gespräch. --- Konversationsanalyse. --- Machtsverhoudingen. --- Patient Participation. --- Patient. --- Physician-Patient Relations. --- Power, Psychological. --- Social Dominance. --- Verbale communicatie. --- Englisch.