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American Medicine The Quest for Competence

Paperback • 1998 • English

American Medicine The Quest for Competence

By Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good

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About the book

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, the first to fully explore the meaning and politics of competence in modern American medicine. Based on Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good's recent ethnographic studies of three distinct medical communities—physicians in rur...Show more

Medical profession
Public health and preventive medicine
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ISBN

9780520216532

Publisher

University of California Press

Published year

1998

Language

English

Original title

American Medicine The Quest for Competence

Format

Paperback

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