Full Description
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.
Contents
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.
