Parent-led conferences as sites of medical work

Bibliographic Data

ID7787742
AuthorsRebecca Dimond (0000-0003-1974-7289, Cardiff University, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume18
Issue6
Pages631-645
Publication date2014-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHealth An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1363-4593 • E-ISSN: 1461-7196
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1363459314524806
PMID24677337
OpenAlexW1985106423
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited50

Conferences are novel sites for understanding medical work. Through describing styles of presentation that take place at conferences attended by patients and parents, this article highlights how clinicians on stage present ordinary and extraordinary aspects of medicine. Attention is drawn to the reaction of the parents in the audience. The power of the presenter to direct proceedings highlights the potential vulnerability of the audience. The relationship between clinician on stage and parents in the audience reflects the clinical relationship between doctor and patient. But through identifying insiders and outsiders, the conference setting also enables new relationships and collective identities to be formed. Drawing on an ethnographic study of rare disease conferences, this article extends understanding of medical work by identifying how conferences offer new ways of witnessing the clinical gaze, the doctor–patient relationship and the formation and enactment of a conference community

Ethnography · Gaze · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Public relations · Sociology · Computer Science · Empathy and Medical Education · Engineering · Medicine · Medicine and Dermatology Studies History · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Psychology

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