Becoming Gods
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Becoming Gods

Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals

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eBook - ePub

Becoming Gods

Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals

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About This Book

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 trainees learn to wield new tools, language, and technology and how their white coat, stethoscope, and newfound technical, linguistic, and sensory skills lend them an authority that they cultivate with each practice, transforming their sense of self. Becoming Gods 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.

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Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9781978819672
Topic
Sozialwissenschaften
Subtopic
Soziologie

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Foreword by Lenore Manderson
  9. Introduction: Medicine as an (Extra)Ordinary Social Commitment
  10. 1. Women Can’t Be Trauma Doctors, and Other Gendered Stories of Medicine
  11. 2. Doctors on the March: Punishment, Violence, and Protests
  12. 3. The Soul of the Hospital: Life as an Intern
  13. 4. Internalizing and Reproducing Violence
  14. 5. The Body Learns: Transforming Skills and Practice in Obstetrics Wards
  15. Conclusion: Medicine as an Imperfect System
  16. Acknowledgments
  17. Glossary
  18. Notes
  19. References
  20. Index
  21. About the Author
  22. Series List