Negotiating Illness
Disability Grants and the Treatment of Epilepsy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2955618 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julia Segar (0000-0002-6507-820X, Rhodes University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 282-298 |
| Publication date | 1994-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Anthropology Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0745-5194 • E-ISSN: 1548-1387 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/maq.1994.8.3.02a00020 |
| OpenAlex | W2146165914 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 14 |
Research in a South African clinic setting shows that epilepsy and noncompliance are viewed as means for attaining disability grants by both patient and doctor. Interviews with 42 patients and a number of health care personnel were carried out at the Grahamstown Day Hospital in 1990 to explore the effect of epilepsy and its treatment on the lives of patients. The focus of patients on disability grants must be viewed within the context of poverty and high rates of unemployment characteristic of the Eastern Cape, South Africa, as well as the nature of health care delivery and the welfare bureaucracy. Analysis drawing on the concept of metaphor shows that concentration on the question of disability grants takes precedence over the issues of disease and therapy. From the perspective of health care personnel, drug compliance becomes equated with moral worth
Bureaucracy · Compliance (psychology · Context (archaeology · Economic growth · Economics · Epilepsy · Health care · Metaphor · Negotiation · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Psychiatry · Unemployment · Welfare · Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life · Healthcare cost, quality, practices · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Social Psychology
Culture, Health and Illness
The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire
The health seeking process
Inequity and resource allocation in South Africa
Compliance with therapeutic regimens
The metaphorical nature of drugs and drug taking
Patients' noncompliance and how doctors manage this
Medicine as an Institution of Social Control
A Bitter Pill to Swallow
Negotiating Illness
Psychotropic Drugs and Concepts of Compliance in a Rural Mental Health Clinic
The Charm of Medicines
Family health culture, ethnicity, and asthma
| Citations per year | 0.16 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1994 - 2020 (27) |
| Highly cited | No |