Selected writings in medical sociological research

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Selected writings in medical sociological research

Michael Bloor

(Cardiff papers in qualitative research)

Ashgate, c1997

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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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