Titre :
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Weighing in primary-care nurse-patient interactions. (2006)
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Auteurs :
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PILLET-SHORE (Danielle) : USA. Department of Sociology. University of California. Los Angeles. CA.
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Type de document :
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Article
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Dans :
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Social science and medicine (vol. 62, n° 2, 2006)
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Pagination :
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407-421
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Mots-clés :
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Poids corporel
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Soins santé primaire
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Relation soignant soigné
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Infirmier
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Etats Unis
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Amérique
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Profession santé
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Homme
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Malade
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Relation sociale
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Amérique du Nord
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Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS HcR0xLe6. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. This article analyzes the interactions through which primary-care nurses and patients accomplish patient weighing. The analysis is based on videotaped nurse-adult patient interactions in clinics in the area of Southern California. Detailed examination of co-participants'naturally situated weighing conduct shows that parties recurrently deliver utterances that go beyond that required to accomplish weight measurement-precisely "where" they "are" within the weighing process shaping how they produce and understand these utterances. Using weighing as a locus of epistemic negotiation and potential affiliation, co-participants interactionally achieve the distribution of weight/weighing knowledge and the character of their social relationship. Confronting their numerical weight results in a social/medical setting, patients can use expansive weighing utterances to claim or demonstrate that they possess pre-existing knowledge regarding weight, asserting independent expertise vis-à-vis nurses and claiming result co-recipiency and co-ownership. Speakers can also use expansive utterances to proffer an interactional opportunity for affiliation, inviting recipients to collaborate in producing a more personalized encounter. Through the acceptance or declination of these invitations, the parties work out "who" they "are" to and for one another.
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