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Medical Encounters: The Experience of Illness and Treatment: Routledge Revivals

Editat de Alan Davis, Gordon Horobin
en Limba Engleză Hardback – iul 2026
Originally published in 1977, this book looks at medical sociology from the inside. Each chapter has been written by sociologists who themselves were patients – participant observers. Each experienced problems and sought solutions in the health services, at the same time bringing their training in social science to the analysis of experience. This is a unique contribution to medical sociology, bringing a directness to the recorded experiences.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781041350729
ISBN-10: 1041350724
Pagini: 222
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Revivals

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Cuprins

1. Preface Alan Davis and Gordon Horobin 2. Becoming a Hypochondriac Paul Atkinson 3. Patient Manipulation of the System: An Ethno-Biographic Account Roy Mapes 4. Medical Errands: A Discussion of Routine Patient Work Philip Strong 5. Coping with Migraine Sally Macintyre and David Oldman 6. Learning to Live with It: An Account of A Career of Chronic Dermatological Illness and Patienthood Ray Jobling 7. Diagnosis: The End of Transition Ann Holohan 8. Parenthood and Patienthood: A Dialectical Autobiography Nicky Hart 9. Conflicting Paradigms of Pregnancy: Managing Ambiguity in Ante-Natal Encounters Jean Comaroff 10. The Moral Career of the Day Patient David Weir 11. Routines in a Tropical Diseases Hospital Rosemary Firth 12. On Becoming a Patient in an Orthopaedic Ward: Some Thought on the Definition of the Situation Eileen Fairhurst 13. Trauma and Tedium: An Account of Living on a Children’s Ward Barbara Webb 14. A Yank in the NHS Julius Roth 15. Conclusion – Problems of Patienthood Alan Davis and Gordon Horobin.

Recenzii

Original review of Medical Encounters:
‘This is an interesting and worthwhile publication, which should be read and enjoyed by a wide circle of people including students, general practitioners, and vocational trainees. It should be on most library shelves.’ J. S. McCormick, Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, (1978)

Notă biografică

Alan Davis (d. 1996)
Gordon Horobin (1926–1987)

Descriere

Originally published in 1977, this book looks at medical sociology from the inside. Each chapter has been written by sociologists who themselves were patients – participant observers. Each experienced problems and sought solutions in the health services, whilst bringing their training in social science to the analysis of experience.