Intimate Adversaries : Cultural Conflict Between Doctors and Women Patients /
For over two years Alexandra Todd audiotaped and observed communications between gynecologists and women patients in a private practitioner's office and in a community clinic. Intimate Adversaries provides a close-up view of what takes place in medical interactions centered on reproductive care...
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Philadelphia, Pa. :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Heart of Medicine
- 2. The Diseasing of Reproduction: When the Patient Is a Woman
- 3. "The Patient Doesn't Have Anything to Say About It"
- 4. Delusions in Discourse
- 5. Good Doctors in a Bad Model
- 6. Across a Crowded Room: Some Problems, Some Solutions
- Bibliography
- Index