Medical talk and medical work : the liturgy of the clinic
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Medical talk and medical work : the liturgy of the clinic
Sage, 1995
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University of Tsukuba Library, Library on Library and Information Science
: hbk490.1:A-94991000990
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Bibliography: p. [153]-160
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Description
The development of a sociology of medical knowledge is both assessed and contributed to in Medical Talk and Medical Work.
Underlying the analysis is research on the work of haematologists, which offers a rich resource for understanding the complexities and contradictions between physical bodies and social embodiment, medical talk and technical apparatus. Using but moving beyond this specific material, Paul Atkinson demonstrates the strengths and weaknesses of the existing understanding of medical knowledge. Among the issues explored are: the place of interaction among doctors, rather than between doctors and patients, in defining the construction of medical knowledge; the ways in which clinical opinion is socially produced and the nature of the local settings through which this process occurs; and the relations among medical knowledge, medical language and the increasingly technological contexts of contemporary medical practice.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Work among the Haematologists
The Sociological Construction of Medicine
The Production of Medical Knowledge
Reading the Body
Constructing Cases
Voicing Opinion
Voices of Medicine
Conclusion
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