Jon Hindmarsh is Reader in Work Practice and Technology in the Department of Management at King's College London.

Virginia Teas Gill is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Illinois State University.

All three editors have published widely on healthcare interactions for both sociological and healthcare audiences.

1 Beyond 'doctor and patient': developments in the study of healthcare interactions (Alison Pilnick, Jon Hindmarsh and Virginia Teas Gill).

2 Dialling for donations: practices and actions in the telephone solicitation of human tissues (T. Elizabeth Weathersbee and Douglas W. Maynard).

3 Managing medical advice seeking in calls to Child Health Line (Carly W. Butler, Susan Danby, Michael Emmison and Karen Thorpe).

4 Practitioners' accounts for treatment actions and recommendations in physiotherapy: when do they occur, how are they structured, what do they do? (Ruth Parry).

5 'I've put weight on cos I've bin inactive, cos I've 'ad me knee done': moral work in the obesity clinic (Helena Webb).

6 Progressivity and participation: children's management of parental assistance in paediatric chronic pain encounters (Ignasi Clemente).

7 Embedding instruction in practice: contingency and collaboration during surgical training (Marcus Sanchez Svensson, Christian Heath and Paul Luff).

8 Creating history: documents and patient participation in nurse-patient interviews (Aled Jones).

9 Listening to what is said - transcribing what is heard: the impact of speech recognition technology (SRT) on the practice of medical transcription (MT) (Gary C. David, Angela Cora Garcia, Anne Warfi eld Rawls and Donald Chand).

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