Experiment Perilous: Physicians and Patients Facing the Unknown

Experiment Perilous: Physicians and Patients Facing the Unknown
ISBN-10
1560009497
ISBN-13
9781560009498
Category
Medical
Pages
289
Language
English
Published
1997-01-01
Publisher
Transaction Pub
Authors
Renee C. Fox, Renée Claire Fox

Description

Experiment Perilous covers a three-year period in the lives of the patients and physicians in a small and intense hospital community. It represents a pioneering, participant-observation-based study of a hospital ward as a social system. In a new epilogue, Fox provides a historical and sociological account of phenomena relevant to clinical investigations that she has observed in her forty-five years as a sociologist of medicine.

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