The moral career of poor patients in free clinics

This paper explores the lived experiences and the identity processes attached to attendance at free clinics. It draws on a qualitative study of 94 patients and 37 professionals who were interviewed at four free clinics in France. Since these facilities are for the poor and for people without health...

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Published in:Social science & medicine (1982) 2005-09, Vol.61 (6), p.1369-1380
Main Authors: Parizot, Isabelle, Chauvin, Pierre, Paugam, Serge
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Ambulatory Care Facilities
Ambulatory Care Facilities - economics
Attendance
Biological and medical sciences
Clinics
Doctor-patient relationship
Female
France
Free clinics
Free treatment
Health
Health Care Utilization
Health services
Health services utilization
Healthcare utilisation
Healthcare utilisation Free clinics Moral career Doctor-patient relationship Poverty France
Humans
Humiliation
Identity
Inte
Interviews
Interviews as Topic
Life Sciences
Low income groups
Male
Medical sciences
Medically Uninsured
Medicine
Miscellaneous
Moral career
Morality
Morals
Patient Care
Patients
Personal experiences
Physician patient relationships
Physician-Patient Relations
Poor people
Poverty
Practitioner Patient Relationship
Professionals
Public Health
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Qualitative research
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Santé publique et épidémiologie
Shame
Social Identity
Social sciences
Welfare benefits
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