The Politics of Medical Encounters: How Patients and Doctors Deal with Social Problems

by Howard Waitzkin

Book Overview

The complaints that patients bring to their doctors often have roots in social issues that involve work, family life, gender roles and sexuality, aging, substance use; or other problems of nonmedical origin. In this book, physician/sociologist Howard Waitzkin examines interactions between patients and doctors to show how physicians' focus on physical complaints often fails to address patients' underlying concerns and also reinforces the societal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300055110
• ISBN13: 9780300055115
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 327 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"