Medical identities
Subtitle: working at medicine, working at self
By: edited by Kent Maynard.
Contributors: Maynard, Kent, 1947-
Series: Social identities -- v. 2
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781845450380; 9781845451004
Subjects: Physicians -- Cross-cultural studies; Medicine -- Cross-cultural studies; Professional socialization; Group identity; Self; Health Personnel -- psychology; Cross-Cultural Comparison; Ethnic Groups -- psychology; Self Concept; Social Identification
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Working at therapeutic personhood / Kent Maynard; title: Shaping new identities: general practitioners in Britain and South Africa / Anne Digby; title: Pharmacists and other drug-providers in Cambodia: identities and experiences / Ing-Britt Trankell and Jan Ovesen; title: The vicissitudes of medical identity in Cameroon: Kedjom "traditional doctors" and an ambivalent clientele / Kent Maynard; title: Sexual orientation and gender identity among Zulu diviners / Gina Buijs; title: Learning to be an acupuncturist, and not becoming one / Elisabeth Hsu; title: Necessary in-betweens: auxiliary workers in a nursing-home hierarchy / Janette Davies; title: Midwives' identity in a British hospital: the cost of a normal birth / Jenny Littlewood.