Multimodal Approaches to Healthcare Communication Research - (Bloomsbury Studies in Language and Healthcare) (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Drawing on the concept ofresilient healthcare, this book explores multimodally embedded everyday practices of healthcare professionals in the UK and Japan, utilising novel technology, such as eye-tracking glasses, to inform what constitutes good practice.

Providing an interdisciplinary examination of the theories and rationales of resilient healthcare, the book engages with a range of case studies from a variety of healthcare settings in the UK and Japan and considers the application of advanced technologies for visualising healthcare interactions and implementing virtual healthcare simulation. In doing so, it showcases a number of multimodal approaches and highlights the potential benefits of multimodal and multidisciplinary approaches to healthcare communication research for enhancing resilience in their local contexts.

Review Quotes

In this carefully crafted volume, the editors bring together contributions from several disciplines that converge on the study of interactions between healthcare professionals in emergency and critical care contexts. The emphasis on the visualization of these interactive practices is a significant achievement of the work as is the inclusion of studies in Japan and the UK. This is essential reading for clinicians and health communication scholars globally.

This edited volume examines in fine, visualized detail multidisciplinary healthcare teams by embracing a technology-assisted multimodal perspective across two cultural settings. Very befittingly, the authorship represents a diverse range of disciplinary backgrounds. In approaching healthcare systems as an ecological entity, the volume opens up a timely prospect for engaging with healthcare practice in complex environments - both theoretically and methodologically - and will serve as a useful analytical resource with its transparent writing style, graphics and terminological clarity.

About the Author

Keiko Tsuchiya is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Urban Social and Cultural Studies, Yokohama City University, Japan.

Frank Coffey is Honorary Professor at Nottingham Trent University and Director of DREEAM (Department of Research and Education in Emergency Medicine Acute Medicine and Major Trauma) at Nottingham University Hospitals' NHS Trust, UK.

Kyota Nakamura is Professor at the Department of Quality and Safety in Healthcare, Yokohama City University Medical Centre, and at the Department of Clinical Quality Management, Osaka University Hospital, Japan.