Vania Smith-Oka

Becoming Gods

Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals

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Produktbeschreibung

Becoming Gods is a vivid ethnography of how a cohort of doctors-in-training in the Mexican city of Puebla learn to become doctors. It 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 4g
• ISBN-13: 9781978819665
• ISBN-10: 1978819668
• Artikelnr.: 60366916

Autorenporträt

VANIA SMITH-OKA is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.

Inhaltsangabe

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