'It is only a pinprick': (or is it?): childhood vaccinations in general practice as 'matter out of place'.

The analysis presented in this paper is part of a larger study, the aim of which is to describe the GPs' everyday taken-for-granted working life. The study is based on multi-sited anthropological fieldwork in Danish general practices. This paper analyses consultations where children are vaccinated and the analysis shows the way these consultations differ from other consultations in relation to flow and communication.

Patient-generated aspects in oral rehabilitation decision making. II. Comparison of an individual systematic interview method and the oral health impact profile.

Purpose: The effect of impaired oral functions is best described by the patient, and a shift toward a patient-oriented decision-making process in oral rehabilitation is evident. The Oral Health Impact Profile-49 (OHIP-49) questionnaire has been the most commonly used method to measure oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) in dentistry. An individualized method, the Schedule for the Evaluation of Individual Quality of Life-Direct Weighing (SEIQoL-DW), has proven to fulfill most of the criteria for a method to assist in the decision-making process.

How cancer survivors experience their changed body encountering others.

Background: Psychosocial cancer research illustrates how women treated for breast cancer experience physical changes in their bodies and the way they perceive, that, others see their body. But how patients with other types of cancer have experienced changes in their bodies and how this affects their relationship with others is less researched.

Objectives: To explore how cancer survivors with different types of cancer and cancer treatment, experience and handle their changed body, especially when meeting others, and how this influences their everyday life of survivorship, i.

The meaning of work and working life after cancer: an interview study.

Background: Cancer survivors have diverse and complex patterns of return to work, but little attention has been given to individual experiences of returning to work.

Objectives: To analyse the meaning of work and working life for cancer survivors over time.

Methods: Participant observation was carried out at a cancer rehabilitation centre.

Factors influencing GPs' choice between drugs in a therapeutic drug group. A qualitative study.

Objective: To explore how GPs choose between drugs in a therapeutic drug group.

Design: A qualitative study based on semi-structured ethnographic interviews.

Setting And Subjects: General practitioners from the counties of both Funen and West Zealand in Denmark.

Cancer survivors' experience of time: time disruption and time appropriation.

Aim: This paper reports a study to explore how cancer survivors talk about, experience and manage time in everyday life.

Background: There is an increasing interest in specific physical and psychosocial aspects of life after cancer diagnosis and treatment, but hardly any research follows cancer survivors over time to explore how perceptions and experiences change.

Methods: An exploratory study was carried out in 2002-2004 with a purposive sample of adults who had experienced various forms of cancer.

Los Naturistas-Healers Who Integrate Traditional and Biomedical Explanations in Their Treatment in the Bolivian Health Care System.

Medical pluralism is a common feature in most health care systems. In this system integration and exchanges between sectors are common, thus forming complex and hybrid systems. This paper analyses such a pluralistic system, and is based on an anthropological study involving participant observation and ethnographic interviews.

The patient's perspective: a qualitative study of acute myeloid leukaemia patients' need for information and their information-seeking behaviour.

In recent years there has been an increased focus on cancer patients' information needs. The majority of the studies have led to the conclusion that most patients want as much information as possible about their disease and treatment. These studies have been large survey studies, and most of the patients enrolled in them have been out-patients.