Exploring Clinical Communication in Asia: Culture, Discipline, Best Practice and Clinicians’ Voices in...

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Jack Pun (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Audrey Chan (University of Cambridge, UK)

Exploring Clinical Communication in Asia

Culture, Discipline, Best Practice and Clinicians’ Voices in the Chinese Context

Jack Pun (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Audrey Chan (University of Cambridge, UK)

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Bloomsbury Academic
11 December 2025

Semantics; Communication studies; Medicine: general issues

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Language and Healthcare

Drawing on socially-oriented functional linguistics, this book offers a detailed and systematic overview of the role that language plays in clinician-patient communication in Asian contexts. Putting forward a communication model specific to this particular sociocultural and medical setting, it provides clear and research-driven recommendations for healthcare professionals. Building on cutting-edge empirical research on the health communication landscape in Asia, this book addresses topics of interest to researchers in health communication and applied linguistics more broadly. It also provides healthcare professionals with the resources necessary for a critical reflection of their professional practice. The book makes use of data gathered through a variety of methods, including audio and video recordings of clinician-patient communication, semi-structured interviews, and ethnographic observations. It also uses a cross-disciplinary approach, combining the expertise of linguists, clinicians and health communication researchers, to identify communication features of effective and ineffective interactions, focusing on the communication breakdowns and vulnerable points which jeopardize the quality and safety of the patient experience.

By: Jack Pun (Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong), Audrey Chan (University of Cambridge, UK)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781350298118
ISBN 10: 1350298115
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Language and Healthcare
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 11 December 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jack Pun is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Audrey Chan is a PhD researcher in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Reviews for Exploring Clinical Communication in Asia: Culture, Discipline, Best Practice and Clinicians’ Voices in the Chinese Context

The volume by Jack Pun and Audrey Chan leads readers to a new frontier of health communication research. Through voices of doctors working in the multilingual/cultural city, Hong Kong, clinical practices in Chinese contexts and the cultural values of traditional Chinese medicine are elaborated, in contrast to Western medicine. * Keiko Tsuchiya, Professor of English Language and Linguistics in Liberal Arts and International Studies, Yokohama City University, Japan *