The Unity of Mistakes: A Phenomenological Interpretation of Medical Work

By Marianne A. Paget

Book Overview

Long considered a classic on the nature of medical mistakes, Marianne Paget's The Unity of Mistakes is now available to a new generation of readers. Paget - who herself died 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592131867
• ISBN13: 9781592131860
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.3"