Challenging medicine

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Challenging medicine

edited by David Kelleher, Jonathan Gabe and Gareth Williams

Routledge, 2006

2nd ed

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

This highly topical and controversial book presents a lively re-appraisal of the current changes to the health service and analyzes their effects on the status and practice of health professionals. Modern medicine is a powerful institution. With the help of highly-developed drugs and surgical techniques, it promises to relieve suffering, improve the quality of life and extend the life-span. Conversely, it is expensive for the governments, insurance companies and individuals who pay for it and sometimes appears to be insensitive to the needs of those for whom it provides. And while recent restructuring of healthcare delivery services has provided medical practitioners with new challenges, there has been very little consideration of the range of pressures that they now face. Edited and written by experienced medical sociologists, this book draws together analysis of a number of diverse challenges to medicine, and provides original debate on the challenges posed from within medicine from nurses and managers and alternative practitioners, and from outside by self-help groups, the women's movement and the media.

目次

Notes on Contributors Preface Understanding Medical Dominance in the Modern World 1. From Tribalism to Corporatism: The Continuing Managerial Challenge to Medical Dominance 2. The Challenge of Nursing 3. Litigation and the Threat to Medicine 4. Television and Medicine: Medical Dominance or Trial by Media? 5. The Alternatives to Medicine 6. Self-help Groups and Their Relationship to Medicine 7. Lay Knowledge and the Privilege of Experience 8. Sex, Gender and Medicine: The Case of the NHS 9. Attacking the Foundations of Modern Medicine? Anti-Vivisection Protest and Medical Science Index

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