著者

高山 啓子

出版者

川村学園女子大学

雑誌

川村学園女子大学研究紀要 (ISSN:09186050)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.13, no.2, pp.53-66, 2002-03-15

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The purpose of this paper is to show the ethnomethodological approach to medical field, particulary doctor-patient relationship. Some studies of medical sociology have suggested that doctor-patient relationship is assymetry. Medical ethnomethodology explicates how this assymetry between doctor and patient is organized and achieved by participants' interaction in medical consultation. First, I overview historical development of medical ethnomethodology. Second, I examine how asymmetry of doctor-patient relationship is treated by Talcott Parsons who first theorized this problem. Finally, I show that Christian Heath's studies of doctor-patient interaction demonstrate the asymmetry of doctor-patient relationship.