'An Investigation into the Social Construction and Consequences of the Label Epilepsy'
- Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain)
- Date:
- c.1973-1975
- Reference:
- GC/281
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
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Files of case notes and tapes and transcripts of interviews for the families studied as part of the project 'An Investigation into the Social Construction and Consequences of the Label Epilepsy', plus 2 volumes of survey results.
Publication/Creation
c.1973-1975
Physical description
3 transfer boxes, 1 box file
Acquisition note
The archives were given to the library at Wellcome Collection by ESRC Qualitative Data Archival Resource Centre in October 2001.
Biographical note
'An investigation into the Social Construction and Consequences of the Label Epilepsy' focussed on principally twenty-four families with an epileptic child. It aimed to treat the meaning of epilepsy as a central research issue and thus to examine the source and manner by which the meanings of epilepsy were constructed. For each of the families there is a fieldwork file.
Related material
The published paper produced from the research was published in 1979: P. West, "An Investigation into the Social Construction and Consequences of the Label Epilepsy", The Sociological Review, vol.27 no.4 (1979), 719-741.
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Identifiers
Accession number
- 985