Time, Health and Medicine - Ronald Frankenberg

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Title
Time, Health and Medicine
Author
Ronald Frankenberg
format
Hardback
Publisher
SAGE
Language
English
UK Publication Date
19920407

In this volume a series of co-ordinated studies demonstrates that examining time as a key component of the social organization of health provides a new and revealing perspective on the sociology of medicine and the individual experience of health and illness.
Individual contributors focus on varying aspects of the management of time by patient, doctor and institution, and on the wider social context of time concerns of family, industry and polity. A recurrent element is the importance of time within the relationship between health, medicine and work. The contrasts and contradictions between the individuals experience of bodily time and the medical exigencies of clock and calendar are explored.

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`Three chapters are simply superb. They are Paul Bellaby's subtle analysis of the relation between rhythm in manual work and health, absence and deadlines, Alan Prout's detailing of how time economy shaped children's sickness absences from school, and Pat Allatt's sensitive depiction of the effect of the disrupted sociotemporal order on unemployed young adults' sense of well-being. These chapters draw directly on detailed firsthand research. Many insights within the other chapters are interesting and valuable, such as Pritichard's summary of kinds of time, Starkey's observation of possible failure of physicians to rationalize and manage their own time use, and Adam's reminder of the body's physiological temporal organization...this volume provides the groundwork for deepening our understanding of health and medicine by examining time and simultaneously suggests directions for further research' - American Journal of Sociology



`this important collection ranges from the experience of the individual to the political implications of specific contemporary conditions.... this volume usefully provides good empirical material to inform practice. Most importantly, however, these essays as a whole serve as a stimulus and impetus to the increasing acknowledgement of time as a relatively unproblematised area in the social sciences and the rewards and excitement of pursuing cross-disciplinary approaches in order to `dealienate time... to re-view the mutual implication of time and health'. They can therefore be read with interest and benefit by both practitioners in the health field and by anyone who is fascinated by the complexity of time as a background to human culture.' - Sociology of Health and Illness



'It is appropriate that this interesting collection of ten papers around the theme of time should be within the field of medical sociology. It represents a very fruitful merging of sociological and anthropological perspectives, with studies ranging from the experience of individuals in medical settings, to Helman's demonstration of the culture-bound and time-bound nature of the concept of heart disease in Western Industrial Societies... The most thought-provoking paper in the book is Adam's concluding chapter, 'Time and Health Implicated: a coneptual critique'. A beautifully written piece... Few collections of papers are even in quality or wholly coherent in theme. This is better integrated than most and is consistently interesting. As a trail-blazer in area ripe for theoretical development, it can be highly recommended' - Sociology

Type
BOOK
Edition
1st edition
Country of Publication
California
Number of Pages
160

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