Editor Srikant Sarangi Aalborg University, Denmark

Since its inception in 2004, Communication & Medicine has been consistently interrogating the `black box’ of what is routinely characterised as `the communicative turn’ in healthcare practice in clinical and public health domains. It is now firmly established as a leading forum for these critical debates.

The journal is adopted by The COMET Society which hosts annual conferences every July. The editor is supported by an internationally acclaimed, interdisciplinary advisory board, selectively drawn to represent the well-established traditions of the medical, social and human sciences.

Aims and Scope
Communication & Medicine continues to abide by the following distinctive aims:

• To consolidate different traditions of discourse and communication research in its commitment to an understanding of psychosocial, cultural and ethical aspects of healthcare in contemporary societies.

• To cover the different specialities within medicine and allied healthcare studies.

• To underscore the significance of specific areas and themes by bringing out special issues from time to time.

• To be fully committed to publishing evidence-based, data-driven original studies with practical application and relevance as key guiding principles.

• To be targeted at an interdisciplinary audience, which will include healthcare professionals and researchers and students in the medical, social and human sciences.

• To promote a reader-friendly style and format, including engagements with debates and dialogues on crosscutting themes of topical significance.

FORTHCOMING ISSUEs

C&M 16.1

Table of Contents

Articles
Conflict in migrant doctor-local doctor communication in public healthcare institutions in Chile
Mariana Lazzaro-Salazar and Lucas Pujol-Cols

The role of cognitive science and artificial intelligence in supporting clinical diagnosis
Claudio Lucchiari, Maria Elide Vanutelli and Raffaella Folgieri

Getting to know a new protocol in hypertension care: nurses’ use of patients’ self-generated graphical data in follow-up consultations
Mona Lundin

Exploring shared decision-making in breast cancer care: A case-based conversation analysis approach
Neda Mahmoodi

Closed-loop communication during out-of-hospital resuscitation: Are the loops really closed?
Ernisa Marzuki, Hannah Rohde, Chris Cummins, Holly Branigan, Gareth Clegg, Anna Crawford and Lisa MacInnes

Formulating another’s report of troubles in peer support
Christopher Pudlinski

Online narratives of illness in mainland China: From narrating to stance-taking
Yu Zhang

Medical genetics in public discourse: a quantitative screening of media coverage in Switzerland
Bettina Maria Zimmermann, Steffen Kolb, Fabian Zimmermann, Bernice Simone Elger and David Martin Shaw

 

C&M 16.2 Special Issue: Understanding Change in Psychotherapy

Guest editors: Joanna Pawelczyk and Eva-Maria Graf

Table of Contents

Guest Editorial
Understanding change in psychotherapy: Current trends, methodological challenges and future directions
Joanna Pawelczyk and Eva-Maria Graf

Articles
Starting points for therapeutic change: Therapists’ rewordings of patients’ experiences
Claudio Scarvaglieri

Requesting examples in psychodiagnostic interviews: Therapists’ contribution to the sequential co-construction of clients’ change
Thomas Spranz-Fogasy, Eva-Maria Graf, Johannes C. Ehrenthal and Christoph Nikendei

The therapist’s emotional presence and its interactional functions in promoting client change in relationship-focused integrative psychotherapy
Joanna Pawelczyk

"Open" and "closed" therapies: Psychotherapeutic relationship and variety of participants’ stances in different phases of therapies
Liisa Voutilainen and Anssi Peräkylä

Change in family therapy: Accomplishing authoritative and moral positions through interaction
Peter Muntigl and Adam O. Horvath

Commentaries
Commentary 1: Clinically rethinking CA-studies to improve therapeutic conversation
Michael Buchholz

Commentary 2: Psychotherapy: the art of slow inquiry and gradual discovery
Sanna Vehviläinen

C&M 16.3

Table of Contents

Articles
Language barriers in healthcare delivery: A focus on expatriate healthcare providers in Ghanaian hospitals
Mercy Akrofi Ansah and Mercy Adzo Klugah

Opening up space for compassion in nurses’ handover meetings
Harriet Lloyd, Tom Bartlett, Michelle Aldridge-Waddon, Tereza Spilioti and Virpi Ylänne

Branding hospitals on social media through health professionals: Towards a communication model
Pablo Medina-Aguerrebere

Metadiscourse, Materiality, and Morality in Communication Skills Training with Standardized Patients
Grace E. Peters

Interaction between patient and health professional: Hermeneutics of cultural encounters
Anita Holm Riis

“We all have friends like that”: How Australian patients avoid Dr Google shame
Lucinda Harriet Roper and Nancy Sturman

“No-problem” advice during occupational health examinations
Elina Weiste, Timo Leino and Jaana Laitila

Reporting on individual experience: A proposal of a patient-centred model for the medical case report
Magdalena Zabielska

Current Issue

Communication & Medicine 15.3 (2018) [2019] - click here to view the table of contents

Indexing & Abstracting/Metrics
 
SCOPUS:
CiteScore 2018: 0.4
SJR 2018: 0.123
SNIP 2018: 0.481

H-index: 14 (2015)
Bibliography of Linguistic Literature / Bibliographie Linguistischer Literature (BLL)
ComAbstracts
ComIndex
EBSCO Communication and Mass Media Index
EBSCO Current Abstracts
EMBASE
IBZ International Bibliography of Periodical Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences
IBR International Bilbiography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Linguistics and Language Behaviour Abstracts
OCLC Electronic Collections Online
Pubmed
European Reference Index (ERIH Plus)

Publication and Frequency: 3 issues per year from 2011 (volume 8)
ISSN: 1612-1783 (print)
ISSN: 1613-3625 (online)

Professor Srikant Sarangi
Faculty of Humanities
Aalborg University
Kroghstræde 3
DK-9220 Aalborg Ø
DENMARK

Notice Regarding Volumes 1-4
For print copies of Volumes 1-4 as well as online access for those issues please contact the former publisher, Mouton De Gruyter.

Most Recent Articles

Most Viewed Articles

Announcements