Socialising Disease
Medical Categories and Inclusion of the Aged
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3377498 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joanna Latimer (0000-0001-7418-7515, Cardiff University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 383-407 |
| Publication date | 2000-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-954x.00222 |
| OpenAlex | W2044844691 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 23 |
When older peoples' troubles are categorised as social rather than medical, hospital care can be denied them. Drawing on an ethnography of older people admitted as emergencies to an acute medical unit, the article demonstrates how medical categories can provide shelter for older people. By holding their clinical identity on medical rather than social grounds, physicians who specialise in gerontology in the acute medical domain can help prevent the over-socialising of an older person's health troubles. As well as helping the older person to draw certain resources to themselves, such as treatment and care, this inclusion in positive medical categories can provide shelter for the older person, to keep at bay their effacement as 'social problems'. These findings suggest that contemporary sociological critique of biomedicine may underestimate how medical categorising, as the obligatory passage through which to access important resources and life chances, can constitute a process of social inclusion
Aesthetics · Biomedicine · Ethnography · Identity (music) · Inclusion (mineral) · Medical anthropology · Medical care · Medical sociology · Public health · Social constructionism · Social science · Sociology · Unit (ring theory) · Aging and Gerontology Research · Anthropology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Gender Studies · Medicine · Nursing · Obesity and Health Practices · Psychology · Gerontology
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Surveying 'slides'
Opening the Black Box of Rationing Care in Later Life
Why must I wait?' The performance of legitimacy in a hospital emergency department
Repairing with a warm heart
Repelling neoliberal world-making? How the ageing-dementia relation is reassembling the social
The politics of policy practices
Washing and Assessing
Rejecting, reframing, and reintroducing
Discourse and Text
Critical Discourse Analysis and the Marketization of Public Discourse
Medical Knowledge and Medical Practice
Geriatric assessment
On Interests and their Transformation
NHS reforms and community care — means-tested health care masquerading as consumer choice
Old Age, Disease, and the Discourse on Risk
The Dark at the Bottom of the Stairs
Aging, Health, and Culture
Decision Making in the Treatment of Acute Illness in Nursing Homes
Managing an Uncertain Illness Trajectory in Old Age
How I Learned What a Crock Was
The Heroic Life and Everyday Life
Normal rubbish
Giving Patients a Future
Deconstructing the 'Social Bath
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,48 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2024 (24) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |