American Medicine
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american healthcare
american medical education
american medicine
anthropology
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biotechnology
breast cancer treatment
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ethnography
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harvard medical school
healthcare in the united states
healthcare reform
malpractice
malpractice suits
medical anthropology
medical education
medical legal institutions
medical professionals
medical training
new pathway curriculum
oncologists
oncology
physicians in rural california
power struggles
quality care
sociology
united states of america
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- ISBN 9780520216532
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 24 Nov 1998
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good is Professor of Medical Sociology at Harvard Medical School, coeditor of Pain as Human Experience: An Anthropological Perspective (California, 1992), and coeditor-in-chief of Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry: An International Journal of Comparative Cross-Cultural Research.
