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Title Time, health and medicine / edited by Ronald Frankenberg
Published London : Sage Publications, [1992]
©1992

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Description xi, 173 pages ; 23 cm
Contents 'Your time or mine' : temporal contradictions of biomedical practice / Ronald Frankenberg -- Heart disease and the cultural construction of time / Cecil Helman -- Time and the cervix / Hilary Thomas -- Women's time, institutional time / Franca Pizzini -- Doctors, patients and time / Peter Pritchard -- Time and the hospital consultant / Ken Starkey -- Broken rhythms and unmet deadlines : workers' and managers' time-perspectives / Paul Bellaby -- Work, time and sickness in the lives of schoolchildren / Alan Prout -- The dis-ease of social change : time and labour markets in the lives of young adults and their families / Pat Allatt -- Time and health implicated : a conceptual critique / Barbara Adam
Summary "Time is an issue of central concern to the functioning of Western medical care. It is essential both to diagnostic criteria between chronic and acute conditions, and to the organizational flow of medical practice. Yet it has been largely neglected by the social scientific study of health and medicine. In this volume a series of co-ordinated studies demonstrates that examining time as a key component of the social organization of health provides a new and revealing perspective on the sociology of medicine and the individual experience of health and illness." "Individual contributors focus on varying aspects of the management of time by patient, doctor and institution, and on the wider social context of time concerns of family, industry and polity. A recurrent element is the importance of time within the relationship between health, medicine and work. The contrasts and contradictions between the individual's experience of bodily time and the medical exigencies of clock and calendar are explored." "Offering fresh insights into the social scientific analysis of health and medicine, and the study of time from a sociological and anthropological perspective, this book will be of interest to those studying medicine and to the growing area of the social study of time."--BOOK JACKET
Analysis Medicine Sociology
Notes Spine title: Time, health & medicine
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Chronobiology.
Health -- Social aspects.
Medical personnel and patient.
Medical protocols.
Social change -- Health aspects.
Social medicine.
Social norms.
Time perception.
Time -- Health aspects.
Time -- Psychological aspects.
Time -- Social aspects.
Time -- Sociological aspects.
Time.
Social Medicine.
Author Frankenberg, Ronald.
LC no. 91051133
ISBN 0803986785
0803987005
Other Titles Time, health & medicine