"This wound has spoilt everything”: emotional capital and the experience of surgical site infections
(2014)
Journal Article
Brown, B., Tanner, J., & Padley, W. (in press). "This wound has spoilt everything”: emotional capital and the experience of surgical site infections. Sociology of Health and Illness, 36(8), https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12160
In this article we explore the experience of suffering from a surgical site infection, a common complication of surgery affecting around 5 per cent of surgical patients, via an interview study of 17 patients in the Midlands in the UK. Despite their p... Read More about "This wound has spoilt everything”: emotional capital and the experience of surgical site infections.