Editorial

Authors

  • Rick Iedema The University of Technology, PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007 Australia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/japl.v2.i3.243

Keywords:

communication in health care

Author Biography

  • Rick Iedema, The University of Technology, PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007 Australia

    Rick Iedema has a PhD in Linguistics from Sydney University (1997). He is Professor in Organisational Communication and Associate Dean (Research) at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Technology Sydney. His research interest is how communication in hospitals contributes to the organisation of clinical work. He has (co)published three edited volumes (Hospital Communication, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007; Identity Trouble with Carmen Caldas Coulthard, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008, and Managing Clinical Work, Elsevier, with Ros Sorensen). He has published a single-authored book (Discourses of Post-Bureaucratic Organization; Benjamins, 2003), and is currently working on a monograph for Routledge with Carl Rhodes, David Grant and Hermine Scheeres.

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2008-04-11

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Iedema, R. (2008). Editorial. Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice, 2(3), 243-252. https://doi.org/10.1558/japl.v2.i3.243