Selected writings in medical sociological research
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Selected writings in medical sociological research
(Cardiff papers in qualitative research)
Ashgate, c1997
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  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
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Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A self-selection of the author's writings covering 25 years of research experience in the field of sociology of health and illness. The papers are on qualitative research finds, on study methods and on empirically-based theorising.
Table of Contents
- Bishop Berkley and the adeno-tonsillectomy enigma - an exploration of variation in the social construction of medical disposals
- on the analysis of observational data - a discussion of the worth and uses of inductive techniques and respondant validation
- an alternative to the ethnomethodological approach to rule use - a comment on Zimmerman and Wieder's comment on Denzin
- observation of abortive illness behaviour
- conceptions on therapeutic work in therapeutic communities
- power, surveillance and resistance in therapeutic communities and health visiting
- patient-centred medicine - some sociological observations on its constitution, penetration, and cultural assonance
- spotting the invisible man - the influence of male gender on fieldwork relations
- a minor offence - the variable and socially constructed character of death certification in a Scottish city
- HIV-related risk practices among Glasgow male prostitutes - reframing concepts of risk behaviour.
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