Sick Notes
Title | Sick Notes PDF eBook |
Author | Tony Copperfield |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Copperfield, Tony |
ISBN | 9781906308148 |
Medicine.
Sick-Note Britain
Title | Sick-Note Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Adrian Massey |
Publisher | Hurst & Company |
Pages | 357 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 1787381226 |
An urgent call to reform Britain's sickness culture, offering social--not medical--solutions.
Sick Note
Title | Sick Note PDF eBook |
Author | Gareth Millward |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 245 |
Release | 2022-08-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0192689657 |
Sick Note shows how the question of 'who is really sick?' has never been straightforward and will continue to perplex the British state. Sick Note is a history of how the British state asked, 'who is really sick?' Tracing medical certification for absence from work from 1948 to 2010, Gareth Millward shows that doctors, employers, employees, politicians, media commentators, and citizens concerned themselves with measuring sickness. At various times, each understood that a signed note from a doctor was not enough to 'prove' whether someone was really sick. Yet, with no better alternative on offer, the sick note survived in practice and in the popular imagination - just like the welfare state itself. Sick Note reveals the interplay between medical, employment, and social security policy. The physical note became an integral part of working and living in Britain, while the term 'sick note' was often deployed rhetorically as a mocking nickname or symbol of Britain's economic and political troubles. Using government policy documents, popular media, internet archives, and contemporary research, Millward covers the evolution of medical certification and the welfare state since the Second World War, demonstrating how sickness and disability policies responded to demographic and economic changes - though not always satisfactorily for administrators or claimants. Moreover, despite the creation of 'the fit note' in 2010, the idea of 'the sick note' has remained. With the specific challenges posed by the global pandemic in the early 2020s, Sick Note shows how the question of 'who is really sick?' has never been straightforward and will continue to perplex the British state.
Sick-Note Britain
Title | Sick-Note Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Adrian Massey |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 357 |
Release | 2019-03-01 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 1787382303 |
Dr Adrian Massey has worked at the intersection of medicine and society for decades. He argues compellingly that our hyper-medicalized society has falsely equated sickness with illness, and sickness with unfitness to work--whereas sickness is primarily a social problem requiring social, not medical, solutions. Sick-Note Britain lays bare Britain's gross error: when doctors cannot 'fix' anxiety or chronic pain, workplace attendance is still treated as a matter for arbitration by our strained primary care service. What is needed is a tailored, employer-employee contractual solution, but obstacles block this approach: excessively complex employment law constraining both sides; an outdated benefits system that overburdens doctors and traumatizes the vulnerable; and a workplace culture that is too inflexible to keep sick employees in work. This is a blistering condemnation of a sham system that works for nobody, and an urgent call to rethink how we manage sickness--for the sake of our economy, our wellbeing, and our health service.
Sick Notes
Title | Sick Notes PDF eBook |
Author | Gwendoline Riley |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 122 |
Release | 2013-10-31 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1446485765 |
Returning to Manchester, her broken home, Esther moves back to the flat she used to share with her best friend Donna. Surrounded by empty gin bottles, with her past life safely taped up in stacked cardboard boxes, she proceeds to turn her back on a 'real world' that seems meaningless and absurd. Instead she lives in her own head. Then she meets Newton, a care-worn American wanderer with a drinker's face and an angel's smile. Newton changes everything. But for how long?
Old and Sick in America
Title | Old and Sick in America PDF eBook |
Author | Muriel R. Gillick, M.D. |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 327 |
Release | 2017-10-06 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 1469635259 |
Since the introduction of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, the American health care system has steadily grown in size and complexity. Muriel R. Gillick takes readers on a narrative tour of American health care, incorporating the stories of older patients as they travel from the doctor's office to the hospital to the skilled nursing facility, and examining the influence of forces as diverse as pharmaceutical corporations, device manufacturers, and health insurance companies on their experience. A scholar who has practiced medicine for over thirty years, Gillick offers readers an informed and straightforward view of health care from the ground up, revealing that many crucial medical decisions are based not on what is best for the patient but rather on outside forces, sometimes to the detriment of patient health and quality of life. Gillick suggests a broadly imagined patient-centered reform of the health care system with Medicare as the engine of change, a transformation that would be mediated through accountability, cost-effectiveness, and culture change.
Interpretations – An Ethnographic Drama
Title | Interpretations – An Ethnographic Drama PDF eBook |
Author | Adrian Blackledge |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Pages | 130 |
Release | 2020-11-09 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1800410115 |
This highly original book brings compelling narratives of migration and social diversity vividly to life. At once a play script and an outcome of ethnographic research, it is a rich resource for the interpretation and representation of life in the multilingual city. The book takes an inside view of a hidden space in the city: an advice and advocacy service in a Chinese community centre. Here, advisors translate and translanguage, making sense of the bureaucratic world for clients who need help to access rights and resources related to housing, employment, education, welfare benefits, insurance, taxation, health and much more.