Bodies of information
Subtitle: an ethnography of anatomy and surgery education
By: Rachel Prentice
Series: Experimental futures; Experimental futures
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780822351436; 9780822351573
Subjects: Medicine; Medical students; Residents (Medicine); Effect of technological innovations on; Social aspects; Physician and patient; Study and teaching (Graduate)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "A fascinating object"; title: Cutting dissection; title: Cultivating the physician's body; title: Techniques and ethics in the operating room; title: Swimming in the joint; title: Enterprising bodies in the laboratory; title: The anatomy of a surgical simulation.