American medicine : the quest for competence / Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clinical competence.

Medical care--United States--Evaluation.

Medical care.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 265 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What does it mean to be a good doctor in America today? How do such challenges as new biotechnologies, the threat of malpractice suits, and proposed health-care reform affect physicians' ability to provide quality care? These and many other crucial questions are examined in this book.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface to the Paperback Edition

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Engaging the Field

CHAPTER ONE. Medical Malpractice and the Voices of Medicine

PART I. The Transformation of the Culture of Competence in Rural Medicine: Contests of Specialty and Gender

Introduction to Part I

CHAPTER TWO. The Challenge to Local Medicine

CHAPTER THREE. Competence and Care: Cultural Conflicts Embedded in Gender and Specialty

CHAPTER FOUR. A Crisis of Competence

CHAPTER FIVE. National Crises in Obstetrical Care: Competence and Risk Reexamined

PART II. The Quest for Competence through Medical Education

Introduction to Part II

CHAPTER SIX. Narrative Strategies in Presentation and Performance: From Artifice to Competence

CHAPTER SEVEN. The Social Production of Physician Competence

PART III. Culture, Competence, and Clinical Science

Introduction to Part III

CHAPTER EIGHT. Competence and Clinical Narratives in Oncology

CHAPTER NINE. Epilogue: The Relevance of Competence to Policy

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520922037

0520922034

9780585098630

0585098638

OCLC:

1394121396