Modern Medicine (eBook, ePUB)

Lay Perspectives And Experiences
Redaktion: Williams, Simon J.; Calnan, Michael

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Do lay people view modern medicine as a fountain of hope or a font of despair? What are their experiences of modern medical care and technology, and how do their views and experiences differ across different social groups? Combining theoretical insights with a range of qualitative and ethnographic research, this volume examines lay experiences and evaluation of medicines and drugs, chronic illness and life-saving technology, and reproductive technologies. It also considers the growing popularity of complementary therapies as a potential challenge to orthodox medicine.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134219339
• Artikelnr.: 39907924

Autorenporträt

Simon J. Williams, Michael Calnan

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Introduction; Chapter 1 Modern medicine and the lay populace:
theoretical perspectives and methodological issues, Simon J. Williams,
Michael Calnan; Chapter 2 Lay evaluation of scientific medicine and medical
care, Michael Calnan, Simon J. Williams; Part II Medicines and drugs;
Chapter 3 Lay views of drugs and medicines: orthodox and unorthodox
accounts, Nicky Britten; Chapter 4 Risking tranquillizer use: cultural and
lay dimensions, Jonathan Gabe, Michael Bury; Chapter 5 Perceptions and use
of antihypertensive drugs among cultural groups, Myfanwy Morgan; Part III
Chronic illness and modern medicine; Chapter 6 The critical moment: time,
information and medical expertise in the experience of patients receiving
coronary bypass surgery, Alan Radley; Chapter 7 Narratives of normality:
end-stage renal-failure patients' experience of their transplant options,
Uta Gerhardt; Chapter 8 A "failure" of modern medicine? Lay perspectives on
a pain relief clinic, Gillian A. Bendelow; Part IV Women and reproductive
technology; Chapter 9 Pain and pain relief in labour: issues of control,
Lynda Rajan; Chapter 10 New reproductive technologies: the views of women
undergoing treatment, Elaine Denny; Part V Complementary therapies and lay
re-skilling in late modernity; Chapter 11 Using complementary therapies: a
challenge to orthodox medicine?, Ursula Sharma; Chapter 12 Conclusions:
modern medicine and the lay populace in late modernity, Simon J. Williams,
Michael Calnan;