The Role of Language in Eastern and Western Health Communication

ISBN-13: 9780367554491 / Angielski

Jack Pun

Opis

Jack Pun’s book offers up the latest research in a variety of health communication settings to highlight the cultural differences between the East and the West.

It focuses on the various clinical strands in health communication such as doctor-patient interactions, nurse handover, and cross-disciplinary communication to provide a broad, comprehensive overview of the complexity and heterogeneity of health communication in the Chinese context, which is gradually moving beyond a preference for Western-based models to one that considers the local culture in understanding and interpreting medical encounters. The content highlights the cultural difference between the East and the West, and focuses on how traditional Chinese values underpin the nature of clinical communication in various clinical settings and how Chinese patients and practitioners conduct themselves during medical encounters. The book also covers various topics that are unique to Chinese contexts such as the use of traditional Chinese medicine in primary care, and how clinicians translate Western models of communication when working in Chinese contexts with Chinese patients.

This volume will appeal to researchers working in health communication in both the East and West as well as clinicians interested in understanding what makes effective communication with multicultural patient cohorts.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. The methodological approaches and major themes of health communication in Asian contexts 3. Researching doctor-patient interactions in emergency department  4. Researching clinician-to-clinician communication during clinical nurse handovers  5. Researching communication in high-risk clinical settings: The voices of doctors and nurses working in the Intensive Care Unit  6. Researching communication in high-risk clinical settings: Intensive Care Unit (patients’ voices)  7. Researching the teaching of communication practices for medical students 8. Researching communication on end-of-life conversations  9. Researching Traditional Chinese Medicine communication  10. Researching Veterinary Medicine communication  11. Applications from the health communication research  12. Teaching health communication in a Chinese Context: Developing training for clinicians in the Chinese context and ideas for teachers and course designers 13. Conclusion: Closing the gap between research and practice

O autorze

Jack Pun is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the City University of Hong Kong. As a bilingual speaker of Chinese and English, he is motivated to investigate the effectiveness of health communication, including how it influences patient satisfaction, from a cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary perspective. He is especially interested in how effective communication enhances our understanding of the challenges and expectations in healthcare in international hospital settings. Jack is also a founding member of the Institute for Communication in Healthcare (ICH) at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.