At Home in Hospital ? Interaction and Stigma in People Affected by Cancer  

Oleh:

Wilson, Kate S. ; Luker, Karen A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 62 no. 7 (Apr. 2006), page 1616-1627.
Topik: patients; UK; patients and careers; stigma; interaction; cancer hospital; outside world

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: SS53.3 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Social reseach conducted in cancer hosiptals has tended to focus of interaction between patients and staff, and studies of interaction amongst people with cancer often centre on group therapy and patient patient support mediated by health professionals. Informal interaction between patients and fellow patients and their carers / visitors, occurs in cancer hospitals every day has remainds largerly unanalysed, particularly in the case of visitors. In this paper, based on data from 71 in depth interviews, we compare patient and carer perceptions of interacting with fellow patients / visitors in a cancer centre with their perceptions of interacting in the outside world. We apply serving goffman's theories on stigma to the data and argue that these theories have both relevance and currency. the outside world can be seen as a civil place where people with cancer often encountered difficulties such as undue admiration, uneasiness, avoidance and lack of tact, whereas the cancer centre appears to have been a back place where, for most patients, stignatisation was not an issue and they could get on with it in the company of fellow patients, and their visitors. however some groups of patients experienced social isolation in the hospital or seemed to be assigned to the lower strata of cancer patient society. We conclude that patients who are outside the informal support system in cancer hospitals may have psychosocial difficulties that might be recognised and addresses by healthcare staff and that patients and their carers might benefit from enhanced support following discharge from hospital.

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