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Transformacja systemowa i nierówności w zdrowiu. Perspektywa zwykłego człowieka
System transformation and inequality in health. A perspective of an ordinary man

Author(s): Włodzimierz Piątkowski
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: inequalities in health; system transformation

Summary/Abstract: This text is the effort of having a look at the system transformation and inequalities in health cused by it from the perspective of Eliot Freidson’s theory. The author wants to show the makrosocial process and their costs from the ordinary people’s point of view. The empirical material will be the fragments of letters sent to TVP program II by the viewers systematically watching the programs of non conventional therapist A.M. Kaszpirowski. This kind of personal documents among others gives the possibility of subjective experiencing the financial difficulties in the first phase of transformation, registration of impressions connected with the trauma of the “big change”, finally allowes to follow the examples of new thinking about the social and economic problems: increase of civil activity, autocreative and innovative attitudes.

  • Issue Year: 9/2011
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 76-84
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Polish