Mary-Jo DelVecchio DelVecchio Good; Sandra Teresa Hyde; Sarah Pinto; Byron Good University of California Press (2008) Saatavuus: Tilaustuote Pehmeäkantinen kirja
Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good; Paul Brodwin; Byron J. Good; Arthur Kleinman University of California Press (1994) Saatavuus: Tilaustuote Pehmeäkantinen kirja
Byron J. Good; Michael M. J. Fischer; Sarah S. Willen; Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good John Wiley and Sons Ltd (2010) Saatavuus: Tilaustuote Kovakantinen kirja
Byron J. Good; Michael M. J. Fischer; Sarah S. Willen; Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good John Wiley and Sons Ltd (2010) Saatavuus: Tilaustuote Pehmeäkantinen kirja
Mary-Jo DelVecchio-Good; Sarah S. Willen; Seth Donal Hannah; Ken Vickery; Lawrence Taeseng Park Russell Sage Foundation (2011) Saatavuus: Hankintapalvelu Pehmeäkantinen kirja
What does it mean to be a good doctor in America today? How do such challenges as new biotechnologies, the threat of malpractice suits, and proposed health-care reform affect physicians' ability to provide quality care? These and many other crucial questions are examined in this book, the first to fully explore the meaning and politics of competence in modern American medicine. Based on Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good's recent ethnographic studies of three distinct medical communities - physicians in rural California, academics and students involved in Harvard Medical School's innovative 'New Pathway' curriculum, and oncologists working on breast cancer treatment - the book demonstrates the centrality of the issue of competence throughout the medical world. Competence, it shows, provides the framework for discussing the power struggles between rural general practitioners and specialists, organizational changes in medical education, and the clinical narratives of high-technology oncologists. In their own words, practitioners, students, and academics describe what competence means to them and reveal their frustration with medical-legal institutions, malpractice, and the limitations of peer review and medical training. Timely and provocative, this study is essential reading for medical professionals, academics, anthropologists, and sociologists, as well as health-care policymakers.