Abstract:This article focuses on the use of first person plural ‚wir‘ (we) in treatment recommendations. After outlining the research on practices of recommending and decision making in medical interaction as well as the relevance of these practices for therapeutic interventions, we show on the basis of 56 oncological consultations how doctors use ‚wir‘ (we) to encode collective agency (e.g. Enfield 2017) and thus index the recommendations as collectively decided upon by a medical team. Using the methods of Interaction… Show more
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