Download The Unity of Mistakes: A Phenomenological Interpretation of Medical Work

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Edition: 1
Release: 2004-03
Publisher: Temple Univ Pr
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 1592131867
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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Marianne Paget's "The Unity of Mistakes" has long been considered a landmark text on the nature of medical error. Paget who herself died because of a medical error argued that mistakes are an intrinsic part of the clinical process. Encompassing a much wider range of error than the terms 'malpractice', 'incompetence', or 'negligence' denote, "The Unity of Mistakes" takes an existential view of medical work in which things go wrong as a matter of course, and probes what Paget called the 'complex sorrow' that can result when things do go wrong. This new paperback edition contains a Foreword by Joan Cassell, anthropologist and author of "Expected Miracles: Surgeons at Work". 'I began this study when I became aware of the anguish of clinical action and of the moral ambiguity of being a clinician, a person who acts, acts sometimes mistakenly, and, therefore, lives with the experience of being wrong'.With this statement, Marianne Paget introduces her study of medical mistakes and their meanin Download The Unity of Mistakes for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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