Forgive and remember : managing medical failure / Charles L. Bosk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bosk, Charles L.

Contributor:

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surgery--Study and teaching (Graduate)--Social aspects.

Surgery.

Surgical errors.

Surgery--Quality control.

Surgeons.

Physical Description:

xxv, 276 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preface to the Second Edition: A Sociologist Puts on the Hair Shirt xiii

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

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-268) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0226066789

OCLC:

51936873