Ambiguous responsibility in the doctor-patient relationship
The case of infertility
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4588985 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gay Becker (Institute on Aging), Robert D Nachtigall (University of California, San Francisco) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 875-885 |
| Publication date | 1991-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Science & Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0277-9536 • E-ISSN: 1873-5347 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/0277-9536(91)90243-6 |
| OpenAlex | W2006092365 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 53 |
Ambiguity · Biomedicine · Competence (human resources · Family medicine · Infertility · Negotiation · Perception · Political science · Pregnancy · Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare · Ethics in medical practice · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies · Social Psychology
Infertility and psychological distress
From generalist to specialist
From offline to online stigma resistance
Three-track care
Condemned to be meaningful
Changes in Clinical Practice in Response to Reductions in Reimbursement
Born to be a mother
Sad not to have children, happy to be childless
What do women want? Women's experiences of infertility treatment
As novas tecnologias reprodutivas
Malinowski Award Lecture
Metaphors in Disrupted Lives
Eager for medicalisation
The ambiguity of patient-centred practices
That's What Makes a Woman
Power and the profession of obstetrics
In the Patient's Best Interest
The Relevance of Social Science for Medicine
The Making of the Modern Body
The Silent World of Doctor and Patient
Forgive and Remember
A Contribution to the Philosophy of medicine
The Evolution of Medical Uncertainty
Mind and Body as Metaphors
Snowball Sampling
The Need for a New Medical Model
Stigma
The woman in the body
Deviance and medicalization
Patient evaluation of physician role performance
Models and practice in medicine
In the patient's best interest
Forgive and remember
The creation of medical knowledge
Hospital Patient Behavior
Generation and Ethnic Identity
The Anthropologies of Illness and Sickness
Lying-in
Reification and the consciousness of the patient
The coming of age of critical medical anthropology
Training for certainty
The work of hospitalized patients
Infertility and Involuntary Childlessness
The Value of Children in the United States
The Stigma of Involuntary Childlessness
Toward a Phenomenology of Boundaries in Medicine
Theoretical Considerations for the Study of the Doctor-Patient Relationship
Obstetric Training As a Rite of Passage
The Growth of Medical Authority
Cultural Components of Identity in Old Age
Biomedical Practice and Anthropological Theory
Clinical uncertainty
Doctor-patient communication
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,44 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2024 (33) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |