The Woman In The Surgeon S Body

Author : Joan Cassell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780674029279

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The Woman in the Surgeon's Body by Joan Cassell Pdf

Surgery is the most martial and masculine of medical specialties. The combat with death is carried out in the operating room, where the intrepid surgeon challenges the forces of destruction and disease. What, then, if the surgeon is a woman? Anthropologist Joan Cassell enters this closely guarded arena to explore the work and lives of women practicing their craft in what is largely a man's world. Cassell observed thirty-three surgeons in five North American cities over the course of three years. We follow these women through their grueling days: racing through corridors to make rounds, perform operations, hold office hours, and teach residents. We hear them, in their own words, discuss their training and their relations with patients, nurses, colleagues, husbands, and children. Do these women differ from their male colleagues? And if so, do such differences affect patient care? The answers Cassell uncovers are as complex and fascinating as the issues she considers. A unique portrait of the day-to-day reality of these remarkable women, The Woman in the Surgeon's Body is an insightful account of how being female influences the way the surgeon is perceived by colleagues, nurses, patients, and superiors--and by herself.

Author : Elizabeth Morgan
Publisher : Putnam Publishing Group
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015003247379

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The Making of a Woman Surgeon by Elizabeth Morgan Pdf

A woman surgeon describes her experiences and the problems she encountered in medical school, internship and residency.

Author : Alan M. Engler
Publisher : Hudson Pub
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0966382749

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Bodysculpture by Alan M. Engler Pdf

One of the top-selling books on plastic surgery, this book discusses some of the most popular plastic surgery procedures, including breast surgery (enlargement, lift, reduction), liposuction, and tummy tucks. pairs of before and after photos help demonstrate the results of the surgery, which are discussed in further detail in a clear, easy-to-understand writing style.

Author : Linda Papadopoulos
Publisher : Acorn Digital Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781909122215

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Mirror, Mirror - Dr Linda's Body Image Revolution by Linda Papadopoulos Pdf

Author : Vania Smith-Oka
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781978819672

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Becoming Gods by Vania Smith-Oka Pdf

Through rich ethnographic narrative, Becoming Gods 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.

Author : Elianne Riska
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0202367339

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Medical Careers and Feminist Agendas by Elianne Riska Pdf

The increasing proportion of women in the medical profession has been followed keenly both by conservative and feminist observers during the past three decades. Statistics both in Europe and in the United States tend to confirm that women work mainly in niches of the health care system or medical specialties characterized by relatively low earnings or prestige. The segregation of medical work has become increasingly recognized as a sign of inequality between female and male members of the medical profession. Medicine as a social organization is not a universal structure: Health care systems vary in the extent to which physicians work in the private or public sector and in the extent to which they have as a corporate body been able to influence their numbers and the character of their work. The aim of this book is not only to review and to provide an account of women's position in medicine but also to provide an analytical framework. The text revolves around three key issues that illuminate this argument: numbers, medical practice, and feminist agendas of women physicians. The issues are addressed in all the chapters but highlighted as central analytical themes in a cross-cultural context. Challenging previous studies of the medical profession, which have assumed for the most part a gender-neutral stance, Riska's text provides a unique focus. Medical Careers and Feminist Agendas presents a comprehensive, cross-national analysis of the current status of women in three societies where the economics of medical practice vary considerably: a market society, a welfare state, and a formerly communist society in transition. Aimed at a wide audience, this book will be useful for years to come in medical sociology, the sociology of professions, and women's studies. Its historical breadth, current data, and trenchant probing will furnish practitioners and policy-makers alike with a needed analytical tool. Elianne Riska is Academy Professor of the Academy of Finland, and von Willebrand-Fahlbeck Professor of Sociology at bo Academi University, Finland. She was formerly assistant and then associate professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology and College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University. Her earlier published work includes Gender, Work, and Medicine and Gendered Moods.

Author : Kathy Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135207007

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Reshaping the Female Body by Kathy Davis Pdf

Reshaping... looks at women's involvement in cosmetic surgery and raises the question of why women put themselves under the knife for operations which are painful, risky and expensive and often leave them in worse shape than before.

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1992 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : WISC:89110490869

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress Pdf

Author : Jocelynne A. Scutt
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030279981

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Beauty, Women's Bodies and the Law by Jocelynne A. Scutt Pdf

What makes a woman’s body beautiful? Plastic surgery, cosmetic surgery and non-surgical interventions such as Botox are changing women’s bodies physically and affecting cultural notions and expectations of what it means to be a woman. Yet where does the law stand? Is the renovation of women’s bodies legal? This book explores a range of topics, including: whether shape-changing by surgical and non-surgical means is ‘really’ what women want; the question of legal intervention when operations, injections and other methods go wrong; the impact of consent determinations on whether women can or cannot freely seek changes to their body structure; and the role which culture and social expectations play in women’s decision-making. Taking a legal perspective on the vast range of ‘beauty’ interventions available to women, Scutt discusses women’s perceptions of body and beauty, pressures on women to conform to ‘idealised’ notions of the perfect woman’s body, and outcomes of legal actions including those taken by individual women who are unhappy with results, as well as those launched against companies trading in products advertised as safe and for women’s benefit. Beauty, Women’s Bodies and the Law will appeal to readers with an interest in women’s and gender studies, law, and cultural studies.

Author : Gabriel Weston
Publisher : Harper
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0061725404

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Direct Red by Gabriel Weston Pdf

“What a terrific book….[Weston] leaves you feeling that if push came to shove you’d want to be operated on by her.” —Nicholas Shakespeare, author of Bruce Chatwin: A Biography The continuing popularity of doctor shows on TV—from Scrubs, House, and Grey’s Anatomy to the television phenomenon ER—indicates a widespread fascination with all things medical. Direct Red, by practicing ear, nose, and throat surgical specialist Gabriel Weston, takes readers behind the scenes and into the operating room for a fascinating look at what really goes on on the other side of the hospital doors. “A Surgeon’s View of her Life-and-Death Profession,” Weston’s Direct Red is written not only with knowledge and insight, but with compassion, honesty, and literary flair.

Author : Andrew Russell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781405139120

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The Social Basis of Medicine by Andrew Russell Pdf

Following the GMC’s call for greater social and behavioural science input into undergraduate medical education, this brand new title in the Lecture Notes series provides an understanding of how education, social class, family, economics and occupational circumstances, as well as cultural and ethnic influences, shape patients and health professionals alike. A deeper appreciation and understanding of these issues can have a positive effect on clinical diagnosis and practice. Emphasising clinical relevance at all times, the book features photographs and line drawings to illustrate key points, and case studies that provide real-life illustrations of the points discussed. It also contains 'points of view' boxes which encourage critical thinking and challenge the reader to come up with their own explanations for the phenomena described. Lecture Notes: The Social Basis of Medicine provides information and materials useful not only for undergraduate medical students, but also for recently graduated and practising doctors who wish to have a greater understanding of, and to develop their skills in, this area.

Author : Wendy Mitchinson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442665286

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Body Failure by Wendy Mitchinson Pdf

In this energetic new study, Wendy Mitchinson traces medical perspectives on the treatment of women in Canada in the first half of the twentieth century. It is based on in-depth research in a variety of archival sources, including Canadian medical journals, textbooks used in many of Canada’s medical faculties, popular health literature, patient case records, and hospital annual reports, as well as interviews with women who lived during the period. Each chapter examines events throughout a woman’s life cycle – puberty, menstruation, sexuality, marriage and motherhood – and the health problems connected to them – infertility, birth control and abortion, gynaecology, cancer, nervous disorders, and menopause. Mitchinson provides a sensitive understanding of the physician/patient relationship, the unease of many doctors about the bodies of their female patients, as well as overriding concerns about the relationship between female and male bodies. Throughout the book, Mitchinson takes care to examine the roles and agency of both patients and practitioners as diverse individuals.

Author : Kieran Crowley
Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781429903318

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The Surgeon's Wife by Kieran Crowley Pdf

In the summer of 1985, in his exclusive Upper East Side Manhattan apartment, Robert Bierenbaum, a prominent surgeon and certified genius, strangled his wife Gail to death. He then drove her body to an airstrip in Caldwell, N.J., and dumped it into the Atlantic Ocean from a single-engine private plane. The next day he reported her missing. Gail's parents had been thrilled to learn she was marrying Robert Bierenbaum. He seemed to be the perfect match for their daughter. he was from a well-to-do family, a medical student who spoke five languages fluently, a skier, and he even flew an airplane. But Gail would come to learn of her husband's dark side. On one occasion when Robert had tried to choke Gail because he caught her smoking, she filed a police report. She also alleged that he tried to kill her cat because he was jealous of it. For year, her sister pleaded with Gail to run for her life. Even her therapist warned his vulnerable patient that she could eventually die at the hands of the man she married. Fifteen years after this unspeakable, unfathomable crime, a jury found Robert Bierenbaum guilty of murder--and stripped the mask off of this privileged professional to reveal a monster.

Author : Richard Quain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1376 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Medicine
ISBN : HARVARD:HC195T

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A Dictionary of Medicine by Richard Quain Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1662 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UOM:39015057968466

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office Pdf