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About the Author
Kristian Pollock is a senior research fellow in the School of Nursing at Nottingham University. She studied social anthropology at the Universities of Edinburgh and Cambridge and has carried out qualitative research in a range of health service settings. She has a particular interest in lay and professional constructions of illness and health, the social and personal significance of medicines, 'knowledge' as a resource in coping with illness and professional-patient interaction in medical consultations. Her interest in concordance developed during the course of a five-year Concordance Research Fellowship, funded by the Department of Health, which she held jointly with Janet Grime at the Department of Medicines Management at Keele University.
Reviews
"'A truly patient centred - and concordant - medical practice needs to start from a genuine professional awareness and understanding of the patient perspective. In particular, it should acknowledge the central importance of attending to the patient's experience of illness as an arbitrary and capricious manifestation of misfortune, rather than an occasion for the attribution of blame and personal irresponsibility. Only then will there be a chance for the reorientation of the professional preoccupation with non-compliance as a technical problem of defective patient behaviour towards an acceptance of the radical shift in underlying philosophy and culture that is required for the development of a genuinely concordant medical practice.' Kristian Pollock"
Book Information
ISBN 9781857758412
Author Kristian Pollock
Format Paperback
Page Count 216
Imprint Radcliffe Publishing Ltd
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 362g