Medical Talk and Medical Work: The Liturgy of the Clinic by Atkinson, Paul

Medical Talk and Medical Work: The Liturgy of the Clinic (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780803977303)

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Format: Hardcover
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Medical Talk and Medical Work: The Liturgy of the Clinic by Atkinson, Paul

Medical Talk and Medical Work: The Liturgy of the Clinic

$280.00
Medical Talk and Medical Work: The Liturgy of the Clinic by Atkinson, Paul

Medical Talk and Medical Work: The Liturgy of the Clinic

$280.00
Format: Hardcover
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The development of a sociology of medical knowledge is both assessed and contributed to in Medical Talk and Medical Work.

Underlying the analysis is research on the work of haematologists, which offers a rich resource for understanding the complexities and contradictions between physical bodies and social embodiment, medical talk and technical apparatus. Using but moving beyond this specific material, Paul Atkinson demonstrates the strengths and weaknesses of the existing understanding of medical knowledge. Among the issues explored are: the place of interaction among doctors, rather than between doctors and patients, in defining the construction of medical knowledge; the ways in which clinical opinion is socially pr

Author: Paul Atkinson
ISBN-10: 0803977301
ISBN-13: 9780803977303
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Language: English
Published: 06/15/1995
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 0.70d

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