Making Doctors
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A01=Simon Sinclair
Anatomy Theatre
Answer Series
Author_Simon Sinclair
Basic Medical Training
Becker's Perspectives
Category=JHM
Clinical Students
consultants responsibility
Dispositional Categories
Dissection Group
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ethnographic research
Final Clinical Year
gender and race medicine
Hospital Medical School
institutional culture medical education
Junior Doctors
Material Referents
medical dispositions
medical habitus
medical socialisation
medical training
mental health medical students
Original Material Base
Out-Patient Clinics
power dynamics healthcare
Pre-registration Year
Preclinical Years
Problem Based Learning
professional identity formation
Radio Therapy
Rag Mag
Rugby Club
Standard IQ Test
Student Culture
UCAS Form
Vice Versa
Ward Rounds
Wellcome Institute Library
Product details
- ISBN 9781859739556
- Weight: 400g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 1997
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Few outsiders realize that student illness is frequently, and ironically, a by-product of medical training. This unique study by a medical doctor and trained anthropologist debunks popular myths of expertise and authority which surround the medical establishment and asks provoking questions about the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge within the field. In detailing all levels of basic training in a London medical school, the author describes students' 'official' activities (that is, what they need to do to qualify) as well as their 'unofficial' ones (such as their social life in the bar). This insider's exposé should prompt a serious reconsideration of abuses in a profession which has a critical influence over untold lives. In particular, it suggests that the structures and discourses of power need to be re-examined in order to provide satisfactory answers to sensitive questions relating to gender and race, the dialogue between doctor and patient and the mental stability of students under severe stress.
Simon Sinclair University of Durham
