Passage through Crisis
Polio Victims and Their Families
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11097358 |
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| Authors | Martha E Wadsworth (0000-0002-5319-2937, corresponding author), M E J Wadsworth |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 117 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Passage Through Crisis: Polio Victims and Their Families, Fred Davis, 2017 |
| Venue | Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2074795 |
| OpenAlex | W2065224858 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Based on a study of fourteen families in which a child had contracted paralytic poliomyelitis. Passage Through Crisis: Polio Victims and Their Families, first published in 1963, was widely praised for its penetrating--and, for its time, innovative--analyses of doctor-patient communications, and for its interpreta-tion of the meaning of physical disability in American society. In his new opening essay, Davis reflects on the enduring sources of this profound problem in human relations as well as on those changes in the culture of American health care that are helping to restructure doctor-patient relations along more open, less authoritarian lines. The emergence of patient self-help groups, the political militancy of the Gay community in regard to AIDS, and the fading of the early post-World War II naive faith in the humanitarian efficacy of science are some of the developments dealt with. A parallel discussion of the importation into medical sociology of such concepts as the reality-structuring power of professional discourse and of the meta-phoric significance of different diseases for different historical eras seeks to relate developments in the culture of health care to sociology's study. Passage Through Crisis retains for today's readers that essential quality that most engaged readers of a quarter century ago: its vivid and probing ethno-graphic account of the impact of serious illness on the family, the difficult processes of adjustment that ensue and, in these connections, the role played (and toll exacted) by American values
Poliomyelitis · Political science · Medicine · Primary Care and Health Outcomes · Public Health Policies and Education · Virology
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De l’envers à l’endroit
The Development of an Impact-on-Family Scale
Examining Critical Health Policy Issues within and beyond the Clinical Encounter
The Polio Narratives
What is Evidence-based Education
Peopling Organizations
Der Körper als Träger des Selbst
Qualitative research methods in health technology assessment
Goffmans Stigma-Identitätskonzept — neu gelesen
Problematic Bodies
Some Thoughts on Grounded Theory
The cardiac patients perception of his heart attack
Redefining treatment
Coming of Age among Blind People in Israel
Aux frontières du handicap psychique
Of Lungs and Lungers
On 'Labeling' in Actual Interaction
Changes in Medicine, Changes in Nursing
The Experience and Reporting of Common Physical Complaints
Directing Intervention from Afar
Medical Sociology
A Policy Perspective on the United States Rehabilitation System
Doing Funeral Directing
Le TDA/H, un diagnostic qui agite les familles. Les quêtes diagnostiques autour d’enfants agités, entre rupture et continuité
Reformative concept analysis for applied psychology qualitative research
Male pregnancy symptoms in urban Colombia
Reconceptualizing Family Stress
Navigating Between Illness Paradigms
Return to Sender
But Nice Girls Don't Get It
Time demands and medical ethics in women's health care
Sociology and the vernacular voice
Bad News in Oncology
Being epileptic
On practices of 'good doctoring
| Highly cited | No |
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