Bodies in Formation: An Ethnography of Anatomy and Surgery Education
(Part of the Experimental Futures Series)
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Surgeons employ craft, cunning, and technology to open, observe, and repair patient bodies. In Bodies in Formation , anthropologist Rachel Prentice enters surgical suites increasingly packed with new medical technologies to explore how surgeons are made in the early twenty-first century. Prentice argues that medical students and residents learn through practice, coming to embody unique ways of perceiving, acting, and being. Drawing on ethnographic...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822351579
ISBN13:9780822351573
Release Date:December 2012
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:312 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"
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