Managing affect: Integration of empathy and problem-solving in health care encounters

Discourse Studies

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 597-622

  Ruusuvuori, Johanna ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Affect; Conversation analysis; Empathy; General practice; Homeopathy; Institutional interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 35248838752     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: 14617080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445607081269     Document Type: Article

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