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Some practices are technologically and empirically based. Others are enshrined
in the mystique of hospital practice. These are linked with social expectations and
medical assumptions about what a patient is and how she should behave, and ...
Some practices are technologically and empirically based. Others are enshrined
in the mystique of hospital practice. These are linked with social expectations and
medical assumptions about what a patient is and how she should behave, and ...
Page 117
The word 'patient' itself derives from 'passivity', the patient is someone to whom
something is done. As I observed interaction in a labour ward in a British
maternity hospital I noticed that midwives were most satisfied with the
management of a ...
The word 'patient' itself derives from 'passivity', the patient is someone to whom
something is done. As I observed interaction in a labour ward in a British
maternity hospital I noticed that midwives were most satisfied with the
management of a ...
Page 119
In hospital he also enters a total institution which dictates his own behaviour
rigidly—how long he can reasonably spend with each patient, for example, or
whether Sister will disapprove of him sitting on a patient's bed, and sometimes
more ...
In hospital he also enters a total institution which dictates his own behaviour
rigidly—how long he can reasonably spend with each patient, for example, or
whether Sister will disapprove of him sitting on a patient's bed, and sometimes
more ...
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Contents
The Motherhood Trap | 16 |
Mothers in the Social System | 36 |
Getting and Not Getting Pregnant | 54 |
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