Doug Maynard
Doug Maynard is a Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison. He received the Ph.D. from University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1979. Recently, he is co editor (with Hanneke Houtkoop-Steenstra, Nora Cate Schaeffer, and Hans van der Zouwen) of Standardization and tacit knowledge: Interaction and practice in the survey interview (New York: Wiley Interscience, 2002), co-editor (with John Heritage) of Practicing medicine: Talk and action in primary care encounters (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), and author of a monograph, Bad News, good news: Conversational order in everyday talk and clinical settings (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2003). His current research addresses a variety of topics in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, including the endogenous formation of gestalt contextures (autism as an interactional case), the interactional measurement of cognitive functioning in survey interviews, and meaning assessment sequences in clinics and ordinary conversation.
Keywords:
Conversation analysis, ethnomethodology, institutional talk, bad & good
news, survey interaction, medical interactions, diagnostic news, disability,
social psychology
