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Incorporating Patient Knowledge in Japan and the UK: A Study of Eczema and the Steroid Controversy

Incorporating Patient Knowledge in Japan and the UK: A Study of Eczema and the Steroid Controversy

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Series: Routledge-Wias Interdisciplinary Studies

Medical ReferenceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032090057
ISBN13: 9781032090054
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 30 2021
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Ushiyama takes the case of eczema as a case study in how patient knowledge has come to affect change in medical practice. Comparing ethnographic fieldwork from Japan and the UK, she builds a complex picture of the differences in approach to treatment in light of attitudes to patients' knowledge.

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