“It's just a likelihood”: uncertainty as topic and resource in conveying “positive” results in an antenatal screening clinic

“It's just a likelihood”: uncertainty as topic and resource in conveying “positive” results in an antenatal screening clinic

The recognition of uncertainty as a pivotal issue for the sociology of medicine is longstanding. More recently, the widespread integration of new medical technologies into healthcare has led to a renewed analytic focus on uncertainty. However, there remains little work on the interactional manifesta...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Pilnick, Alison, Zayts, Olga
Format: Article
Published: Wiley 2014
Subjects:
uncertainty; risk communication; conversation analysis; antenatal screening; “screen positive” (high risk) patients; diagnosis delivery
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33208/

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