Bodies in Formation: An Ethnography of Anatomy and Surgery Education - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Rachel PrenticeSeries:Experimental FuturesPublish date:2012-12-25Pages:312
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9780822351573ISBN-10:822351579UPC:9780822351573Book Category:Medical, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Test Preparation & Review, Anthropology, EssaysSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SC04QT6VK2
Bodies in Formation: An Ethnography of Anatomy and Surgery Education
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...
Series: Experimental Futures
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9780822351573ISBN-10:822351579UPC:9780822351573Book Category:Medical, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Test Preparation & Review, Anthropology, EssaysSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SC04QT6VK2
Rachel Prentice is Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University.
Publisher: Duke University Press
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