Vestnik Samarskogo universiteta. Ekonomika i upravlenie Vestnik of Samara University. Economics and ManagementVestnik Samarskogo universiteta. Ekonomika i upravlenie Vestnik of Samara University. Economics and Management2542-04612782-3008Samara National Research University661010.18287/2542-0461-2018-9-2-%pUnknownMEDICAL CHOICE OF CHRONIC PATIENTS FROM SAMARA: EXPERIENCE OF SOCIOLOGICAL FOCUS GROUP RESEARCHGotlibAnna Semenovnalioner97@mail.ruSamara National Research University01022018921405201914052019Copyright © 2018,2018<p>The article is devoted to the methodological approach and the results of the sociological focus group research of the medical choice of chronic patients of Samara in three situations of life with the disease: the situation of debut of the disease, diagnosis and prescription of treatment and the situation of chronic disease.</p>медицинский выбормедицинское решениепациентситуация болезниметод фокус-группысамолечениенародное целительство«хороший врач».medical choicemedical solutionpatientdisease situationfocus group methodself-medicationalternative medicine«good doctor».[1. Gotlib A.S. Kachestvennoe sotsiologicheskoe issledovanie: poznavatel’nye i ekzistentsial’nye gorizonty [Qualitative case study: cognitive and existential horizons]. Samara: Univers-grupp, 2004, 447 p. [in Russian].][2. Derner K. Khoroshii vrach: uchebnik osnovnoi pozitsii vracha [Good doctor: a textbook of the main position of the doctor]. M.: Aleteiya, 2006, 351 p. [in Russian].][3. Lekhtsier V., Gotlib A. Meditsinskii vybor khronicheskikh bol’nykh v krupnom rossiiskom gorode: opyt kachestvennogo analiza [Medical selection of chronic patients in a large Russian city: experience of qualitative analysis]. In: Mixtura verborum’ 2017: chelovek i vremya: filosofskii ezhegodnik. Pod obshch. red. S.A. Lishaeva [Mixtura verborum 2017: Man and Time: Philosophical Yearbook. S.A. Lishaeva (Ed.)], 2017 [in Russian].][4. Semenova V. Strategii kombinirovaniya kachestvennogo i kolichestvennogo podkhodov pri izuchenii pokolenii [Strategies for combining qualitative and quantitative approaches in the study of generations]. INTER, 2014, no. 8 [in Russian].][5. Diedrich L. Treatments, Language, Politics and Culture of illness. Minesota: University of Minesota Press, 2007, 351 p. [in English].][6. Frank A. Wounded Storyteller: body, illness and ethics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977 [in English].][7. Sargent C. The Cultural Context of Therapeutic Choice: Obstetrical Care Decisions among the Bariba of Benin. Dordrecht, Netherlands: D. Reidel, 1982 [in English].][8. Young J.C and Garro L. Variation in the choice of treatment in two Mexican communities. Sot. Sci. Med., 1982, Vol. 16 [in English].]