Forgive and Remember
Managing Medical Failure, 2nd Edition
University of Chicago Press, 2003
Paper: 978-0-226-06678-3 | Electronic: 978-0-226-92468-7
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226924687.001.0001
Paper: 978-0-226-06678-3 | Electronic: 978-0-226-92468-7
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226924687.001.0001
ABOUT THIS BOOKAUTHOR BIOGRAPHYTABLE OF CONTENTS
ABOUT THIS BOOK
On its initial publication, Forgive and Remember emerged as the definitive study of the training and lives of young surgeons. Now with an extensive new preface, epilogue, and appendix by the author, reflecting on the changes that have taken place since the book's original publication, this updated second edition of Charles L. Bosk's classic study is as timely as ever.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Charles L. Bosk is a professor of sociology and medical ethics at the University of Pennsylvania and is the author of All God's Mistakes: Genetic Counseling in a Pediatric Hospital, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Preface to the Second Edition: A Sociologist Puts on the Hair Shirt
One. Introduction
Two. Error, Rank, and Responsibiltiy
Three. Routine Surveillance as Social Control
Four. The Legitimation of Attending Authority
Five. Climbing the Pyramid: Professional Control and Moral Identity
Six. Conclusion
Appendix: The Field-Worker and the Surgeon
An Amended Appendix: An Ethnographer's Apology, a Bioethicist's Lament— The Surgeon and the Sociologist Revisited
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index