Forgive and Remember: Managing Medical Failure, 2nd Edition / Edition 2

by Charles L. Bosk

Overview

On its initial publication, Forgive and Remember emerged as the definitive study of the training and lives of young surgeons. Now with an extensive new preface, epilogue, and appendix by the author, reflecting on the changes that have taken place since the book's original publication, this updated second edition of Charles L. Bosk's classic study is as timely as ever.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900226066782
Publication date:	10/15/2003
Pages:	301
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Charles L. Bosk was professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Preface to the Second Edition: A Sociologist Puts on the Hair Shirt	xiii
1	Introduction	1
2	Error, Rank, and Responsibility	35
3	Routine Surveillance as Social Control	71
4	The Legitimation of Attending Authority	111
5	Climbing the Pyramid: Professional Control and Moral Identity	147
6	Conclusion	167
Appendix	The Field-Worker and the Surgeon	193
	An Amended Appendix: An Ethnographer's Apology, a Bioethicist's Lament--The Surgeon and the Sociologist Revisited	215
	Epilogue	237
	Notes	255
	Bibliography	263
	Index	269