Becoming Gods
Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals
Seiten
2021
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-1966-5 (ISBN)
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-1966-5 (ISBN)
Explores the transformation of medical students into medical selves. Anthropologist Vania Smith-Oka provides a close-up of the lives of doctors and trainees behind the scenes, bringing the reader into spaces not usually accessible to the public.
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.
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.
VANIA SMITH-OKA is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.
Illustrations
Foreword by Lenore Manderson
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.07.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Medical Anthropology |
| Zusatzinfo | 11 b-w illustrations, 1 table |
| Verlagsort | New Brunswick NJ |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 4 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-9788-1966-8 / 1978819668 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-9788-1966-5 / 9781978819665 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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