Scalpel's Edge The Culture of Surgeons

Name: Scalpel's Edge The Culture of Surgeons
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ISBN: 9780205270071

ISBN-10: 0205270077

ISBN-13: 9780205270071

Edition: 1999

Authors: Pearl Katz

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This ethnography about the culture of surgeons describes how and why they differ significantly from other physicians. Rising from humble roots as lower class uneducated itinerant barbers, the profession has evolved into one of the most prestigious in America, one that utilizes the most sophisticated technologies in medicine. Surgeons have nonetheless retained many aspects of their historical culture, such as their proclivity for quick decisions, surgical cures, and their detachment and aloofness from patients and other physicians. This book describes in detail what surgeons actually do in and out of the operating room. It reveals how they think about disease, patients, and other physicians;…

Book details

List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/12/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Encounters with Surgeons



The Surgeon as Hero



Are Surgeons Scientists?



Styles of Surgeons



Communication with Colleagues



Communication with Patients



How Surgeons Make Decisions: Influence of Active Posture on Decision-Making.



Surgical Decision-Making, Referrals, and "Keeping" Patients



The Natural History of Surgical Decisions and Their Consequences



Operating Room Rituals



Implications of the Culture of Surgeons for Modern Medicine



Culture, Medical Anthropology, and Biomedicine



American College of Surgeons



Cybersurgery: The New Surgical Technologies


Bibliography


Index