Argumentation Between Doctors and Patients: Understanding Clinical Argumentative Discourse

by Bart Garssen, Frans H Eemeren, Nanon Labrie

Argumentation between Doctors and Patients discusses the use of argumentation in clinical settings. Starting from the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation, it aims at providing an understanding of argumentative discourse in the context of doctor-patient interaction. It explains when and how interactions between doctors and patients can be reconstructed as argumentative, what it means for doctors and patients to reasonably resolve a difference...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027208484
• ISBN13: 9789027208484
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 155 Pages