1st Edition
Medical Professionals and the Organization of Knowledge
504 Pages
by
Routledge
504 Pages
by
Routledge
504 Pages
by
Routledge
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"Medical Professionals and Their Work" conveys how medical people shape and organize the knowledge, perception, and experience of illness, as well as the substance of illness behavior, its management, and treatment. It is now well established that the unique symbolic equipment of the human animal is intimately connected with the functioning of the body. Freidson and Lorber believe that the proper... Read more
I. MEDICAL MEN, Medical Men as Professionals, Medical Men in Practice, II. MEDICAL WORK, Managing Patients, Defining and Diagnosing Illness, Producing Medical Knowledge, Index
Biography
Eliot Freidson, Judith Lorber
