Reconsidering the role of language in medicine.

Published in: Philosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM (2018)

Ultimately, debates regarding the role of language which have largely resided in non-medical literatures, have important implications for describing communication in medicine. In particular, interpretive models of language use provide an important rationale for facilitating a more robust dialogue between doctors and patients.

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