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Space and Time in British General Practice

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Biomedicine Examined

Part of the book series: Culture, Illness and Healing ((CIHE,volume 13))

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For general practice, time and space appear to be objective and external constraints. Time is a constant limit to practice activity governed by the inexorable ticking of the clock; space too is “given” in that the patient population already spreads itself across a geographical area and surgery premises are contained within pre-existing walls. Certainly there can be adaptations to these constraints, in that catchment areas can be redrawn, surgeries rebuilt or extended and practice routines changed, but space and time still provide, in the experience of the GP, the seeming external backcloth to practice activity.

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  1. Departments of Humanities and Social Studies in Medicine and Anthropology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

    Margaret Lock

  2. Program in Medical Anthropology, University of California, San Francisco, USA

    Deborah Gordon

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Armstrong, D. (1988). Space and Time in British General Practice. In: Lock, M., Gordon, D. (eds) Biomedicine Examined. Culture, Illness and Healing, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2725-4_9

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