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Medical Talk and Medical Work (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780803977310)
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Paul Atkinson
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xThe 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: 080397731X
ISBN-13: 9780803977310
Publisher: Sage Publications UK
Language: English
Published: 06/01/1995
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 9.14h x 6.25w x 0.52d
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