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Author Bosk, Charles L.

Title Forgive and remember : managing medical failure / Charles L. Bosk
Edition Second edition
Published Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2003

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 WATERFT HEALTH  362.197 Bos/Far 2003  AVAILABLE
Description xxv, 276 pages ; 21 cm
Contents Preface to the Second Edition: A Sociologist Puts on the Hair Shirt -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Error, Rank, and Responsibility -- 3. Routine Surveillance as Social Control -- 4. The Legitimation of Attending Authority -- 5. Climbing the Pyramid: Professional Control and Moral Identity -- 6. Conclusion -- App. The Field-Worker and the Surgeon -- An Amended Appendix: An Ethnographer's Apology, a Bioethicist's Lament - The Surgeon and the Sociologist Revisited
Notes Previously published in 1979
Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-268) and index
Subject Surgery -- Study and teaching (Graduate) -- Social aspects.
Surgical errors.
Surgery -- Quality control.
Surgeons.
LC no. 2003048352
ISBN 0226066789 paperback