Questioning in Medicine

Why Do You Ask?: The Function of Questions in Institutional Discourse

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-43

  Heritage, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

"No problem" response; Doctor patient interactions; Optimization; Problem attentiveness; Question design; Questioning in medicine; Recipient design

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919504268     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195306897.003.0003     Document Type: Chapter

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