Becoming a Doctor A Journey of Initiation in Medical School

Name: Becoming a Doctor A Journey of Initiation in Medical School
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ISBN: 9780140111163

ISBN-10: 0140111166

ISBN-13: 9780140111163

Edition: 1987

Authors: Melvin Konner

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List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 7/1/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Melvin Konner is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology and an associate professor and neurology at Emory University. A Fellow o f the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he lives in Atlanta.



Acknowledgments


Preface



Introduction: A Compensatory Pause



Basic Clinical Skills: The First Encounters



Emergency Ward Surgery: No Man's Land



Anesthesiology: The Technicians of Sleep



Ward Surgery: Crossing the Boundary



Neurosurgery and Neurology: Lesions of the Soul



Psychiatry: The Mind-Body Problem



Pediatrics: Suffer the Children



Obstetrics: The Anatomical Volcano



Gynecology: The Machinery of Creation



Pathology: The Aspect of Death



Medicine I: A Failure of the Heart



Medicine II: Deathwatches



Medicine III: Healing and Hope



The Fourth Year: Highlights and Heroes



Conclusion: Healing Artisans


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