Essays in Medical Sociology
Journeys into the Field
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5633554 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ray Fitzpatrick (0000-0003-0607-0563), Richard C Fox (0000-0002-2577-9810), Renee C Fox |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 301 |
| Publication date | 1981-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1315 • E-ISSN: 1468-4446 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/589472 |
| OpenAlex | W2063110569 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 31 |
This outstanding collection of essays by Renee C. Fox encompasses almost thirty years of original, pioneering research in the sociology of medicine. Based on fieldwork in a variety of medical settings in the United States, Belgium, Zaire, these ethnographic essays examine chronic terminal illness, medical research, therapeutic innovation, medical education socialization, bio-ethics. Within this framework, three empirical cases have been singled out for special scrutiny--the process of becoming a physician, the development of the artificial kidney machine organ transplantation, the evolution of medical research in Belgium. Without ignoring social structural or psychodynamic factors, Dr. Fox has explored basic cultural phenomena questions associated with health, illness, medicine: values, beliefs, symbols, rites, the nuances of language: ethical existential dilemmas dualities; the complex interrelationships between medicine, science, religion, magic. She draws systematically imaginatively upon anthropological, psychological, historical, biological insights integrates observations analyses from her own studies in American, Western European, Central African societies. This second, augmented edition includes Professor Fox's more recent contributions to the expanding of the sociology of medicine. They are Evolution of Medical Uncertainty; The Human Condition of Health Professionals; Reflections on the Utah Artificial Heart Program; Is Religion Important in Belgium?; Medical Morality is Not Bioethics--Medical Ethics in China the United States; and Medicine, Science Technology. work also includes a new introduction, Endings, Beginnings Continuities. Now, anthropologists, sociologists, medical educators, scientists, researchers, students can join her on her journeys into the field share with her the priceless insights to be gained from the physicians, nurses, medical students, patients, their families, who are working, living, dying on the edge of what is known, scrutable, remediable--on the edge of medical science
Field (mathematics · Social science · Sociology · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation · Ethics in Clinical Research · Ethics in medical practice · Mathematics
Health professionals and the vaccine narrative
Die medikalisering van die samelewing
Talcott Parsons
Convergence as Method in Theory Construction
Beyond Consensus about Principles
Death, dying and disparity
Training for Efficiency
Uncertainty and Professional Work
Paradigms and Politics
Learning the Moral Economy of Commodified Health Care
The reflective educator
Structure and Ideology in Medical Education
Cadaver Stories and the Emotional Socialization of Medical Students
Institutional Trends in Medical Sociology
Physicians' Discourses on Malpractice and the Meaning of Medical Malpractice
Honour and subsistence
A prática anatômica e a formação médica
Emotions and Medical Decision-Making
Friendly Skulls, Mechanical Bodies
Knowledge, power and experience
Arab Perceptions of Gender as Mirrored in the Search for a Kidney Donor
Normative and Utilitarian Particularism
Dealing with prognostic uncertainty
Observations and Reflections of a Perpetual Fieldworker
Detached concern
The cost of living
Managing uncertainty around HIV/Aids in an urban setting
Health protective behaviors in first year medical students
Biomedical Practice and Anthropological Theory
Professional non-neutrality
Animating Biomedicine's Moral Order
| Citations per year | 0.72 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1983 - 2024 (42) |
| Highly cited | No |