Incorporating Patient Knowledge in Japan and the UK: A Study of Eczema and the Steroid Controversy

ISBN-13: 9781032090054 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 156 str.

Miho Ushiyama

Opis

Ushiyama takes the case of eczema as a case study in how patient knowledge has come to affect change in medical practice. Comparing ethnographic fieldwork from Japan and the UK, she builds a complex picture of the differences in approach to treatment in light of attitudes to patients’ knowledge.

Spis treści

List of figures

List of tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
 
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Sectors Surrounding Patients
Chapter 3: The Professional Sector: Standard Treatment and Modern Medicine
Chapter 4 The Folk Sector: Alternative Medicine
Chapter 5: The Popular Sector: Self-Help Groups 
Chapter 6: The Controversy over Patient Knowledge

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Miho Ushiyama is a lecturer at the Department of Human Relations, Faculty of Human Relations, Otsuma Women's University, Japan.