Main description:

* Provides a historical context for the developments in health over several decades prior to the study
* Shows how oral history methods have increasingly been used in medical history research and explores the benefits of this approach
* Covers many of the themes of the oral history which enabled and encouraged patients to comment on what was important to them in their encounter with health care
* Follows the increasing acceptance of women in medicine, demonstrating how women doctors were viewed by patients within the practice compared to changes in the wider society
* Presents a 'history from below', using voices that are not normally heard in the medical discourse illustrating the importance of the doctor-patient interface

Contents:

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Biography

List of Abbreviations

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: The Medical and Practice Background

Chapter 3: Study Methodology

Chapter 4: Practice Organisation

Chapter 5: Stigma and Marginalisation

Chapter 6: Clinical Topics

Chapter 7: Discussion and Conclusion

Appendices