Rebirth of the clinic : places and agents in contemporary health care /
From physical location to payment processes to expectations of both patients and caregivers, nearly everything surrounding the contemporary medical clinic's central activity has changed since Michel Foucualt's Birth of the Clinic . Indebted to that work, but recognizing the gap between wha...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2010
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | From physical location to payment processes to expectations of both patients and caregivers, nearly everything surrounding the contemporary medical clinic's central activity has changed since Michel Foucualt's Birth of the Clinic . Indebted to that work, but recognizing the gap between what the modern clinic hoped to be and what it has become, Rebirth of the Clinic explores medical practices that shed light on the fraught relationship between medical systems, practitioners, and patients. Combining theory, history, and ethnography, the contributors to this volume ground today's clinic in a larg. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 173 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780816675265 0816675260 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
