Becoming Gods: Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals

by Vania Smith-Oka

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 197881965X
• ISBN13: 9781978819658
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher