@book{2023:ali:constructi,
title = {Constructing Patienthood in Brokered Medical Interaction},
year = {2023},
note = {Drawing on extensive firsthand experience of face-to-face meetings
between patients and healthcare practitioners, Constructing
Patienthood in Brokered Medical Interaction: Iraqi–English
Encounters is the first book-length work dedicated to situating
limited-English-speaking patients on equal footing with their
interlocutors as essential partners in the process of meaning-making.
Afaf Ali builds on theoretical and empirical advancements in
socio-medical research and language brokering to show how immigrant
patients strike a balance between working cooperatively with their
language brokers, or independently by overriding the
language-assistance process to actuate multiple membership categories
as patients, parents, and language brokerees. In doing so, they secure
interactional zones that challenge the discursive asymmetries inherent
in mediated doctor-patient encounters. This timely work makes it clear
that impactful change in healthcare begins with successful
communication.},
edition = {1},
publisher = {Lexington},
address = {Lanham},
series = {},
volume = {},
author = {Ali, Afaf}
}