Politics of Medical Encounters How Patients and Doctors Deal With Problems

In this pathbreaking book, physician/sociologist Howard Waitzkin applies modern techniques of literary analysis--structuralism, post-structuralism, and critical literary theory--to transcripts of doctor/patient exchanges. He shows how physicians' focus on physical complaints often fails to address patients' underlying concerns and also reinforces the societal problems that cause or aggravate these maladies.Waitzkin, Howard B. is the author of 'Politics of Medical Encounters How Patients and Doctors Deal With Problems' with ISBN 9780300055115 and ISBN 0300055110.