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Lui

Rui Liu

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Lui

"I'm not a jukebox where you push a button and then I sing": Negotiating Medicine Access in Physician–Patient Encounters

Author

  • Rui Liu
  • Susanne Lundin
  • Talieh Mirsalehi
  • Margareta Troein

Summary, in English

This article aims to deepen understandings of physician–patient encounters by investigating views and perceptions held by Swedish physicians and care seekers on medicine access. Through a relational approach and a focus on materialities of medicines as fluid and contingent, we conceptualize medicine access as situated everyday practices and physician–patient encounters as embedded in sociomaterial configurations. Through a bricolage approach, we present both quantitative and qualitative data from physicians and care seekers. We argue that diverging views on medicine access held by both parties do not necessarily position medical professional knowledge as opposed to lay knowledge. They are reflective of a shifting healthcare landscape and evolving expectations on provision and experiences of care services.

Department/s

  • Department of Service Studies
  • Division of Ethnology
  • Family Medicine and Community Medicine

Publishing year

2022-12

Language

English

Publication/Series

Ethnologia Europaea

Volume

52

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Open Library of Humanities

Topic

  • Social Anthropology
  • Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy

Status

Published

Research group

  • Family Medicine and Community Medicine

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0425-4597