Challenging medicine / edited by David Kelleher, Jonathan Gabe and Gareth Williams.

Date:
2006
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Publication/Creation

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Physical description

xxxiii, 189 pages ; 23 cm

Edition

2nd ed.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

From tribalism to corporatism : the continuing managerial challenge to medical dominance / David J. Hunter -- The challenge of nursing / Anne Witz and Ellen Annandale -- Litigation and the threat to medicine / Robert Dingwall and Pru Hobson-West -- Television and medicine : medical dominance or trial by media? / Michael Bury and Jonathan Gabe -- The alternatives to medicine / Mike Saks -- Self-help groups and their relationship to medicine / David Kelleher -- Lay knowledge and the privilege of experience / Gareth Williams and Jennie Popay -- Sex, gender and medicine : the case of the NHS / Lesley Doyal -- Attacking the foundations of modern medicine? : anti-vivisection protest and medical science / Mary Ann Elston.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    Medical Collection
    WA31 2006C43
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ISBN

  • 0415389542
  • 0415389534