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Incorporating Patient Knowledge in Japan and the UK Miho Ushiyama

Incorporating Patient Knowledge in Japan and the UK By Miho Ushiyama

Incorporating Patient Knowledge in Japan and the UK by Miho Ushiyama


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

Since the turn of the millennium, the potential for patients' knowledge to contribute to medical knowledge has been increasingly recognized by medical sociologists and anthropologists. Where previously such knowledge may have been written off as 'beliefs' and assumed to be inaccurate when it contradicted established medical science, it is increasingly recognized that patients-especially those with chronic conditions-can add a valuable perspective to the clinical knowledge of medical professionals. Sometimes this means working together to reassess treatment priorities, and at other times it may mean a patient-led movement to influence the direction of new research, based on patients' experiences.

Ushiyama takes the case of eczema (atopic dermatitis)-a chronic condition with a history of patient-led controversy over treatment methods - 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.

About Miho Ushiyama

Miho Ushiyama is a lecturer at the Department of Human Relations, Faculty of Human Relations, Otsuma Women's University, Japan.

Table of Contents

List of figures

List of tables
Preface
Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Sectors Surrounding Patients
Chapter 3: The Professional Sector: Standard Treatment and Modern Medicine
Chapter 4 The Folk Sector: Alternative Medicine
Chapter 5: The Popular Sector: Self-Help Groups
Chapter 6: The Controversy over Patient Knowledge

Bibliography

Index

Additional information

NLS9781032090054
9781032090054
1032090057
Incorporating Patient Knowledge in Japan and the UK: A Study of Eczema and the Steroid Controversy by Miho Ushiyama
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Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2021-06-30
156
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