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

ISBN-13: 9781138339071 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 140 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.