Life Mirrors Work Mirrors Text Mirrors Life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2484692 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marianne A Paget (Brandeis University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 137-148 |
| Publication date | 1990-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Problems (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7791 • E-ISSN: 1533-8533 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/800644 |
| OpenAlex | W2031886927, W4244253253 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 17 |
This paper is about a series of uncanny coincidences in my life and work. The coincidences are as follows: an article of mine, on the construction of an erroneous medical diagnosis of depression on a woman who was a cancer patient, was performed as theater just at the time I, too, unknowingly had cancer; the cancer was discovered very late and, at the same time, a series of medical errors in my care became clear; I am a medical sociologist and my area of special interest is medical mistakes. I describe my work on medical mistakes and the mistakes in my care and explore the uncanny and the status of error in life as it is lived
Depression (economics) · Medical care · Optics · Physics · Psychoanalysis · Quantum mechanics · Sociology · Uncanny · Work (physics) · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Media, Communication, and Education · Medicine · Nursing · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues · Patient Dignity and Privacy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology
Social organization of medical work
Reflections of a woman anthropologist
Forgive and Remember
On Multiple Realities
Profession of medicine
Your son is cured now; You may take him home
Unlearning to not speak
No one commits suicide
The Unity of Mistakes
What's missing in miscarriage
Vocabularies of realism in professional socialization
Performing the Text
Psychiatry and Suicide
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1994 - 2006 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |