Description
• Provides a historical context for the developments in health over several decades prior to the study
• Shows how oral history methods have increasingly been used in medical history research and explores the benefits of this approach
• Covers many of the themes of the oral history which enabled and encouraged patients to comment on what was important to them in their encounter with health care
• Follows the increasing acceptance of women in medicine, demonstrating how women doctors were viewed by patients within the practice compared to changes in the wider society
• Presents a ‘history from below’, using voices that are not normally heard in the medical discourse illustrating the importance of the doctor-patient interface
Book Information
ISBN 9781032439013
Author Kenneth E. Collins
Format Hardback
Page Count 184
Imprint Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd