Medical Work, Medical Knowledge and Health Care A Sociology of Health and Illness Reader

by Annandale, Ellen; Elston, Mary Ann; Prior, Lindsay

• ISBN13: 9780631223276
• ISBN10: 0631223274
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-20
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This selection of key articles chronicles research in the fields of medical knowledge, medical work and health care over the past 25 years. The articles are drawn from the leading international journal, The Sociology of Health and Illness and were originally published between 1980 and 2000. Presented together in one volume, they provide an overview of the major changes in the delivery of health care over this period, and in the way that social scientists and health care providers have conceptualised medical knowledge and practice.In introducing each section of the book, the editors situate the articles within the development of research in the field and flag up links to other relevant literature. These features help to make this Reader an excellent resource for students of sociology, social policy, social work, health policy or health care.

Author Biography

Ellen Annandale, Mary Ann Elston and Lindsay Prior are all experts in the sociology of medical work, medical knowledge and health care. Until recently, they were senior members of the editorial team of the journal, The Sociology of Health and Illness. Dr Annandale is the author of The Sociology of Health and Medicine' (1989), Dr Elston is the editor of The Sociology of Medical Science and Technology' (Blackwell Publishing, 1997) and Dr Prior is the author of The Social Organisation of Mental Illness' (1993).

Table of Contents

Introductory essay: Medical Work, Medical Knowledge and Health Care. Themes and Perspectives	1	(18)
Ellen Annandale, Mary Ann Elston and Lindsay Prior
Section 1: Medical Knowledge, Diagnosis and Treatment
Introduction	19	(6)
1.1 Practices of reading and writing: the constitutive role of the patient record in medical work	25	(25)
Marc Berg
1.2 Reality construction, reality exploration and treatment in two therapeutic communities	50	(14)
M.J. Bloor and J.D. Fonkert
1.3 'But if you look at the coronary anatomy...': risk and rationing in cardiac surgery	64	(25)
David Hughes and Lesley Griffiths
1.4 Art, science and placebo: incorporating homeopathy in general practice	89	(22)
Carl May and Deepak Sirur
1.5 The child as a social object: Down's syndrome children in a paediatric cardiology clinic	111	(20)
David Silverman
Section 2: Medical Power and the Patient
Introduction	131	(4)
2.1 The rise of surveillance medicine	135	(11)
David Armstrong
2.2 The location of pain in childbirth: natural childbirth and the transformation of obstetrics	146	(22)
William Ray Arney and Jane Neill
2.3 Doctors on the medical profession	168	(17)
Deborah Lupton
2.4 The fracturing of medical dominance in British psychiatry?	185	(23)
Colin Samson
2.5 Challenges to medicine: the case of prescribing	208	(31)
Marjorie Weiss and Ray Fitzpatrick
Section 3: The Division of Labour in Health Care Work
Introduction	239	(4)
3.1 The nursing–medical boundary: a negotiated order?	243	(22)
Davina Allen
3.2 Care = organisation + physical labour + emotional labour	265	(20)
Nicky James
3.3 Anaesthetists, the discourse on patient fitness and the organisation of surgery	285	(18)
Nicholas J. Fox
3.4 Thinking teams thinking clients: issues of discourse and representation in the work of health care teams	303	(21)
Anne Opie
3.5 Keeping healthy at home and school: 'it's my body, so it's my job'	324	(23)
Berry Mayall
Section 4: Patient-Provider Interaction
Introduction	347	(4)
4.1 The interactional form of professional dominance	351	(19)
Tony Hak
4.2 'Why didn't you say just that?' Dealing with issues of asymmetry, knowledge and competence in the pharmacist/client encounter	370	(22)
Alison Pilnick
4.3 Fear and loathing in health care settings reported by people with HIV	392	(22)
Gill Green and Stephen Platt
4.4 'They're not the same as us': midwives' stereotypes of South Asian descent maternity patients	414	(21)
Isobel Bowler
4.5 Doctor–patient negotiation of cultural assumptions	435	(28)
Sue Fisher and Stephen B. Groce
4.6 Openness and specialisation: dealing with patients in a hospital emergency service	463
Nicolas Dodier and Agnès Camus