Publications:
Johanna has submitted an article called “Touch and Gaze”, with Julia Katila, that will be published by Edward Elgar in the Handbook on Social Interaction in 2025.
Enhua’s and Julias article “Intercorporeal Formations in Pediatric Dental Encounters With Patients Showing Distress: The Intertwine of Controlling and Comforting Touch”, in collaboration with Niaz Aziz, Satu Lahti and Katie Bradford, has been published in Qualitative Health Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323231211451
Other news
We have finished our entries on Encyclopedia of Terminology for Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistic, on the topics Emotion and Affect, Empathy, Display of Empathy, and Affective Stance that will be published on the EMCA Wiki page approximately at the end of the year.
Juhanna presented in Nordisco 2023, November in Tampere with the title “Embodied Empathy in General Practitioners Consultations”.
Our panel to IIEMCA 2024 in Korea, Seoul was accepted. The name is Touch: affect and embodiment in Healthcare: an EMCA perspective. It is organized by Juhana Mustakallio, Enhua Guo and Johanna Ruusuvuori.
Our Panelists are Enhua Guo, with a “ Accountability in Touching a Distressed Patient in Pediatric Dentristy”, Juhana Mustakallio with “Affect and embodied interaction in neurological consultations during treatment negotiations”, Eri Sakai with “Touching and description of time scales: Conversation analysis of physical assessment in medical acupuncture sessions”, Rachel Chen with “Touching Transformation: The interactive stims of two sensorially-contrastive non-speaking Autistic children”, Wen Ma, Shuai Zhang and Xiao Zhang with “Orchestrating control touch and verbal soothing during venepuncture in pediatric healthcare in China” and Jürgen Streeck with “Tactility, Tranquility, and the Company of a Cat”.