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The social meaning of surgery

By Nicholas J. Fox

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Publish Date

1992

Publisher

Open University Press

Language

eng

Pages

145

Description:

Surgery is the highest prestige medical speciality and surgeons possess great status and authority in Western society. This book examines why this is the case, through detailed description and sociological analysis of daily life in the operating theatre.