1st Edition

The Clinical Experience, Second edition (1997) The Construction and Reconstrucion of Medical Reality

By Paul Atkinson Copyright 1997
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

This second edition, published in 1997 follows the original edition from 1981 which was the only published ethnography of medical education in the UK. The theoretical, methodological and substantive issues continue to be of importance to the sociology and anthropology of medicine and medical knowledge. Indeed, critiques of contemporary ‘biomedicine’ and the growing interest in the sociology of... Read more

1. The Clinical Tradition. 2. Entering the Clinical World. 3. Researching the Clinical Milieu. 4. Counting Experience and Organizing Careers. 5. The Clinical Setting. 6. The Social distribution of Bedside Knowledge. 7. Versions of Clinical Medicine. 8. Reproducing Disease. 9. Reproducing Medicine.

Biography

Paul Atkinson