The paper presents analyses conducted on a corpus of doctor-patient interactions that was carried on in a outward department of Obstetrics and Gynechology in a public hospital in Italy. The corpus includes medical visits with both native and non native patients, (audio) recorded and fully transcribed according to the jeffersonian conventions (Sacks, Schegloff & Jefferson, 1974). We focus on the doctors’ strategies employed to elicit information from the patients with particolar regards to the patient’s job status and the likelihood that she continues to work during pregnancy. Applying Conversation Analytic principles to the analysis of both the sequential structure and the design of the question, the authors highlights how the activity of questioning about the patient’s job includes larger sequences with non native patients as compared to native patients, in which not only the patient’s physical conditions but also her juridical status is questioned. The paper finally discusses the implications of the analyses on the doctors’ training on one hand, and on the social representation of the migrant identity on the other. Keywords: questioning, nonnative patient, job status, pregnancy, Conversation Analysis
The paper presents analyses conducted on a corpus of (audio) recorded and fullytranscribed doctor-patient interactions with native and non native patients, carriedon in a outward department of Obstetrics and Gynechology in a public hospital inItaly. The focus is on the doctors’ strategies employed to elicit information fromthe patients with particular regards to the patient’s job status and the likelihood thatshe continues to work during pregnancy. Applying CA principles to the analysis ofboth the sequential structure and the design of the question, the author highlightshow the activity of questioning about the patient’s job includes larger sequenceswith non native patients as compared to native patients, in which not only thepatient’s physical conditions but also her juridical status is questioned. The paperfinally discusses the implications of the analyses on the doctors’ training on onehand, and on the social representation of the migrant identity on the other.
Presupposti culturali nella formulazione delle domande di medici ginecologi a pazienti migranti / Fatigante, Marilena. - In: SALUTE E SOCIETÀ. - ISSN 1723-9427. - STAMPA. - 1:XII(2013), pp. 41-60. [10.3280/ses2013-001005]
Presupposti culturali nella formulazione delle domande di medici ginecologi a pazienti migranti
FATIGANTE, Marilena
2013
Abstract
The paper presents analyses conducted on a corpus of doctor-patient interactions that was carried on in a outward department of Obstetrics and Gynechology in a public hospital in Italy. The corpus includes medical visits with both native and non native patients, (audio) recorded and fully transcribed according to the jeffersonian conventions (Sacks, Schegloff & Jefferson, 1974). We focus on the doctors’ strategies employed to elicit information from the patients with particolar regards to the patient’s job status and the likelihood that she continues to work during pregnancy. Applying Conversation Analytic principles to the analysis of both the sequential structure and the design of the question, the authors highlights how the activity of questioning about the patient’s job includes larger sequences with non native patients as compared to native patients, in which not only the patient’s physical conditions but also her juridical status is questioned. The paper finally discusses the implications of the analyses on the doctors’ training on one hand, and on the social representation of the migrant identity on the other. Keywords: questioning, nonnative patient, job status, pregnancy, Conversation AnalysisI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
