Becoming Gods : : Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals / / Vania Smith-Oka.
Through rich ethnographic narrative, Becoming Gods examines how a cohort of doctors-in-training in the Mexican city of Puebla learn to become doctors. Smith-Oka draws from compelling fieldwork, ethnography, and interviews with interns, residents, and doctors that tell the story of how medical traine...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English |
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Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Medical Anthropology
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 11 b-w illustrations, 1 table |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION Medicine as an (Extra)Ordinary Social Commitment -- 1 • WOMEN CAN’T BE TRAUMA DOCTORS, AND OTHER GENDERED STORIES OF MEDICINE -- 2 • DOCTORS ON THE MARCH Punishment, Violence, and Protests -- 3 • THE SOUL OF THE HOSPITAL Life as an Intern -- 4 • INTERNALIZING AND REPRODUCING VIOLENCE -- 5 • THE BODY LEARNS Transforming Skills and Practice in Obstetrics Wards -- CONCLUSION Medicine as an Imperfect System -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- GLOSSARY -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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Summary: | Through rich ethnographic narrative, Becoming Gods examines how a cohort of doctors-in-training in the Mexican city of Puebla learn to become doctors. Smith-Oka draws from compelling fieldwork, ethnography, and interviews with interns, residents, and doctors that tell the story of how medical trainees learn to wield new tools, language, and technology and how their white coat, stethoscope, and newfound technical, linguistic, and sensory skills lend them an authority that they cultivate with each practice, transforming their sense of self. Becoming Gods illustrates the messy, complex, and nuanced nature of medical training, where trainees not only have to acquire a monumental number of skills but do so against a backdrop of strict hospital hierarchy and a crumbling national medical system that deeply shape who they are. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781978819696 9783110754001 9783110753776 9783110754186 9783110753967 9783110739138 |
DOI: | 10.36019/9781978819696?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Vania Smith-Oka. |