Becoming gods : medical training in Mexican hospitals

Becoming gods : medical training in Mexican hospitals /

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 traine...

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Main Author: Smith-Oka, Vania, 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2021]
Series:Medical Anthropology Ser.
Subjects:
Interns (Medicine) > Mexico > Puebla de Zaragoza.
Medical education > Social aspects > Mexico > Puebla de Zaragoza.
Teaching hospitals > Mexico > Puebla de Zaragoza.
Medical anthropology > Mexico > Puebla de Zaragoza.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
Interns (Medicine)
Medical anthropology
Medical education > Social aspects
Teaching hospitals
Mexico > Puebla de Zaragoza
Mexico, hospital, anthropology, doctor, ethnography, medical training, hospitality, Latin America, health policy, public health, gender studies, Puebla, medical students, intern, residency, nuance, Mexican hospital, trauma doctor, obstetrics.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • List of 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

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