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Author Waitzkin, Howard.

Title The politics of medical encounters : how patients and doctors deal with social problems / Howard Waitzkin
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [1991]
©1991

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Description xvi, 311 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents pt. 1. The micropolitics of medicine -- 1. Introduction: how patients and doctors deal with social problems -- 2. Theoretical approaches to medical encounters -- 3. A critical theory of medical discourse -- 4. On method -- pt. 2. How medicine mediates social problems -- 5. Men, work and the family -- 6. Women, work, and the family -- 7. Aging -- 8. Self-destructive behavior and other vices -- 9. Troublesome emotions -- 10. The negative case: non-problematic encounters -- pt. 3. Medical micropolitics and social change -- 11. Changing discourse, changing context
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-304) and index
Subject Physician and patient.
Social medicine.
LC no. 90045611
ISBN 0300049498 (alk. paper)
0300055110 (paperback)