(DOWNLOAD) "Experiment Perilous" by Renée C. Fox # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Experiment Perilous
- Author : Renée C. Fox
- Release Date : January 24, 2020
- Genre: Sociology,Books,Nonfiction,Social Science,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 4953 KB
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"This is a brilliant work of lasting value to both sociology and anthropology by a person combining the talent of keen observer with the highest level of theoretical sophistication. . . a major contribution to our understanding of the nature and structure of a significant social situation."--David M. Schneider, The University of Chicago. Experiment Perilous covers a three-year period In the lives of the patients and physicians in a small and intense hospital community. It represents a pioneering, participant-observation-based study of a hospital ward as a social system. In a new epilogue. Fox provides a historical and sociological account of phenomena relevant to clinical investigations that she has observed in her forty-five years as a sociologist of medicine.