'I'll tell you what suits me best if you don't mind me saying': A sociological analysis of lay participation in healthcare

Allen, Davina Ann ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6729-7502 2000. 'I'll tell you what suits me best if you don't mind me saying': A sociological analysis of lay participation in healthcare. Nursing Inquiry 7 (3) , pp. 182-190. 10.1046/j.1440-1800.2000.00067.x

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Abstract

‘I’ll tell you what suits me best if you don’t mind me saying’: ‘lay participation’ in health-careIncreasing ‘lay participation’ in healthcare has become a popular notion in recent years and is generally considered to be a good thing in both nursing and wider policy circles. Yet despite the widespread acceptance of this overall idea, there is a dearth of theorising in this area. This has resulted in a lack of conceptual clarity which has not only hamstrung the development of empirical work in the field, but has also led to a tendency by both nurses and policy-makers to assume that greater ‘lay participation’ in health will lead to a concomitant increase in lay power vis-à-vis health professionals. The data presented in this paper indicate that this is, at best, an over-simplistic assumption and, at worst, an erroneous one. Drawing on sociological theories of the division of labour, I suggest that one way in which we might begin to clarify our thinking in this area is by differentiating between the ‘role’ and ‘task’ components of ‘lay participation’. I illustrate my argument with reference to two separate ethnographic studies undertaken between 1994 and 1998 in which participation at the level of the individual was examined.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Healthcare Sciences
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology R Medicine > RT Nursing
Uncontrolled Keywords:	care; participation; partnerships; patient; sociology
Publisher:	Wiley-Blackwell
ISSN:	1320-7881
Last Modified:	24 Oct 2022 10:21
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/44004

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