1st Edition
Incorporating Patient Knowledge in Japan and the UK A Study of Eczema and the Steroid Controversy
By Miho Ushiyama
Copyright 2020
156 Pages
by
Routledge
156 Pages
by
Routledge
156 Pages
by
Routledge
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Since the turn of the millennium, the potential for patients’ knowledge to contribute to medical knowledge has been increasingly recognized by medical sociologists and anthropologists. Where previously such knowledge may have been written off as 'beliefs' and assumed to be inaccurate when it contradicted established medical science, it is increasingly recognized that patients—especially those... Read more
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
Biography
Miho Ushiyama is a lecturer at the Department of Human Relations, Faculty of Human Relations, Otsuma Women's University, Japan.
