Institutionalizing illness narratives : discourses on fever and care from Southern India /: discourses on fever and care from Southern India. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Mathew George.
• Authors: George, Mathew
• Contents: Preface; Scenario of Epidemics; Context of Fever Talk; Dual Dimensions of Fever Care; Chapterisation; Acknowledgments; Contents; About the Author; Abbreviations; 1 Interpreting Illness, Disease, Medicine, and Medical Care; Abstract; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The Concept of Disease: The Philosophical Debate; 1.3 Sociologists' Approach to Illness and Disease; 1.3.1 Sick Role; 1.3.2 Illness Behaviour to Illness; 1.3.3 Disease as Culturally Defined; 1.4 Medicine and Society; 1.5 Interpreting Medicine; 1.6 Medical Care as Provisioning and Culture; 1.7 The Sociology of Medical Knowledge; 1.8 The Study. 1.9 The Setting1.9.1 Social Development in Kerala; 1.9.2 Kerala's Morbidity and Health Care Scenario; 1.9.3 The Hospital Setting; 1.10 Theoretical Framework; 1.11 Secondary-Level Hospitals: The District Hospital and the Immanuel Hospital; 1.12 Public Hospital at the Primary Level: Community Health Centre; 1.13 Sivani Hospital; 1.14 Commonalties and Differences in Hospital Procedures; 1.15 'Being a Participant Observer'; References; 2 Historical Discourses on Fevers; Abstract; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Early History of Fevers in the West; 2.3 Classification of Fevers. 2.4 Fevers During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: Descriptive to Problematic2.5 Practising Physicians' Knowledge of Fevers: An Eighteenth-Century Characteristic; 2.6 Classification of Fevers: The Primary Task During the Early Nineteenth Century; 2.7 Morgagni and 'Pathological Anatomy'; 2.8 Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Pathologisation on Fever; 2.9 History of Fevers in the Indian Subcontinent; 2.10 History of Public Health in Travancore; 2.10.1 International Interventions in Public Health; 2.11 Medical Care in Travancore; 2.11.1 Fevers in Travancore. 2.11.2 Fever Care in Twentieth-Century Kerala2.12 History of Fevers and Public Health; References; 3 Institutionalising Fever Epidemics and Fever Care in Contemporary Kerala; Abstract; 3.1 Fevers as Discourse; 3.2 Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method; 3.3 Disease Profile of Contemporary Kerala; 3.3.1 Epidemic Fevers; 3.3.2 Reporting Fevers; 3.4 Fever Talk: The Discursive Production of a Disease; 3.4.1 Response from the Media and the Public; 3.4.2 Fever Talk in Plural Systems of Medicine; 3.4.3 Establishment of Fever Clinics; 3.5 Fever Clinics at Work; 3.5.1 Biomedical Practice. 3.5.2 Transactions in a Fever Clinic3.5.3 The Process of Diagnosis; 3.6 Discourses on Institutionalising an Epidemic; References; 4 Fear of Fevers: Risk, Medicalisation, and Provisioning; Abstract; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Selection of Patients; 4.3 Health-Seeking Behaviour; 4.4 Interpreting Fevers in Kerala; 4.4.1 Fever as that Which Interrupts Day-to-Day Life; 4.4.2 Tracing the Causes; 4.4.3 Fever: During and After Suffering; 4.5 Biomedical Interpretation of Fevers; 4.6 Lay Versus Medical Categorisation; 4.6.1 Perceiving Fevers; 4.6.2 Response to Fevers; 4.6.3 Time of Seeking Treatment.
• Publisher Details: Singapore : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxvi, 169 pages)
• Subjects: 362.196900954/8; Fever -- Epidemiology -- Social aspects -- India, South; Fever therapy -- India, South; East Indians -- Hospital care; HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General; MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine; MEDICAL -- Diseases; MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine; MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine; Fever therapy; Fever -- ethnology; Fever -- therapy; Communicable Diseases -- epidemiology; Social Sciences; Medical Anthropology; Public Health; Philosophy of Medicine; India, South; India -- epidemiology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811019050; 9811019053
• Related ISBNs: 9811019045; 9789811019043
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 17, 2016).
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