American Medicine - The Quest for Competence

Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext What does it mean to be a good doctor in America today? How do challenges such as new biotechnologies! the threat of malpractice suits! and health-care reform affect physicians' ability to provide quality care? Based on her ethnographic studies of three distinct medical communities -- physicians in rural California! academics and students in Harvard Medical School's innovative "New Pathway" curriculum! and breast cancer oncologists -- Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good demonstrates that the issue of competence stands as a central focus throughout the medical world. Zusammenfassung 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? This title examines these questions. It explores the meaning and politics of competence in modern American medicine.

Product details

• Authors: Mary-Jo Delvecchio Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio DelVecchio Good, Good Mary-Jo DelVecchio
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.11.1998
• EAN: 9780520216532
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21653-2
• No. of pages: 278
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; USA, Anthropology, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Emergency Management, United States of America, USA, Emergency Services, Health systems & services, Health systems and services