Becoming gods : medical training in Mexican hospitals

Author/Creator:

Smith-Oka, Vania, 1975- author

Publication/Creation:

New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2021]

Resource Type:

Book

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

Becoming gods : medical training in Mexican hospitals / Vania Smith-Oka

Series Titles:

Medical anthropology
Medical anthropology (New Brunswick, N.J.)

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Interns (Medicine)--Mexico--Puebla de Zaragoza
Medical education--Social aspects--Mexico--Puebla de Zaragoza
Teaching hospitals--Mexico--Puebla de Zaragoza
Medical anthropology--Mexico--Puebla de Zaragoza

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Medicine as an (extra)ordinary social commitment -- Women can't be trauma doctors, and other gendered stories of medicine -- Doctors on the march : punishment, violence, and protests -- The soul of the hospital : life as an intern -- Internalizing and reproducing violence -- The body learns : transforming skills and practice in obstetrics wards -- Conclusion: Medicine as an imperfect system.

Summary:

"Becoming Gods is about transformation-of medical students into medical selves. In this book, anthropologist Vania Smith-Oka provides a close-up of the lives of doctors and trainees behind the scenes, bringing the reader into spaces not usually accessible to the public. Through rich ethnographic narrative, the book examines how a cohort of doctors-in-training in the Mexican city of Puebla learn to become doctors. Smith-Oka draws from compelling fieldwork, ethnography, and interviews with interns, residents, and doctors that tell the story of how medical trainees learn to wield new tools, language, and technology and how their white coat, stethoscope, and newfound technical, linguistic, and sensory skills lend them an authority that they cultivate with each practice, transforming their sense of self. Becoming Gods illustrates the messy, complex, and nuanced nature of medical training, where trainees not only have to acquire a monumental number of skills but do so against a backdrop of strict hospital hierarchy and a crumbling national medical system that deeply shape who they are"--

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

xiii, 208 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937381789002486

ISBN:

9781978819665
1978819668
9781978819658
197881965X

OCLC Number:

1198559368

Barcode:

010003489148