Medical Professionals and the Organization of Knowledge

by Eliot Freidson, Judith Lorber, Lorber Freidson

Book Overview

"Medical Professionals and Their Work" conveys how medical people shape and organize the knowledge, perception, and experience of illness, as well as the substance of illness behavior, its management, and treatment. It is now well established that the unique symbolic equipment of the human animal is intimately connected with the functioning of the body. Freidson and Lorber believe that the proper understanding of specifically human rather than generally...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0202362086
• ISBN13: 9780202362083
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 8.8"