The Unity of Mistakes: A Phenomenological Interpretation of Medical Work (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781592131860)

Long considered a classic on the nature of medical mistakes, Marianne Paget's The Unity of Mistakes is now available to a new generation of readers. Paget - who herself died of a medical error - argued that mistakes are an intrinsic part of the clinical process. Encompassing a much wider range of error than the terms malpractice, incompetence, or negligence denote, The Unity of Mistakes takes an existential view of medical work in which things go wrong as a matter of course, and probes what Paget called the complex sorrow that can result when things do go wrong.

Author: Marianne Paget
ISBN-10: 1592131867
ISBN-13: 9781592131860
Publisher: Temple University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/25/2004
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.26h x 5.56w x 0.46d