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Meet Yourself at the Doctor's (Paperback, Main)
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Meet Yourself at the Doctor's (Paperback, Main)
Series: Mass Observation social surveys
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Loot Price R431
Discovery Miles 4 310
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Mass Observation was founded by Tom Harrisson, Charles Madge and
Humphrey Jennings in 1937. Its purpose was to create 'an
anthropology of ourselves' in other words, to study the everyday
lives of ordinary people in Britain. Discounting an initial
pamphlet, this was the twentieth book to be published. It appears
in Faber Finds as a part of an extensive reissue programme of the
original Mass Observation titles. Both Meet Yourself at the
Doctor's and its companion Meet Yourself on Sunday were first
published in 1949 towards the end of Mass Observation's initial
period. They share something else in common: they are both
gloriously illustrated by Ronald Searle. This Mass Observation
study was written at a particularly interesting time, a year after
the creation of the National Health Service. Patients describe
their experiences in waiting-rooms and consulting-rooms: the
children's clinic is seen through the eyes of the mothers who visit
it: a doctor discusses his daily-round: a hospital patient
describes tells how it feels to be the subject of a bedside clinic.
The sum is a vivid piece of social history, a first-hand report of
unmatched immediacy.
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