Publisher's Synopsis
Medical Doctors' Reference: GRAND ROUNDSAs you probably have guessed by now, every occupation has its own particular history and that, in some respects is at least, unique. If scrutinized closely enough, GRAND ROUNDS as a unique educational exercise also claims a contemporary pattern of structural and ideological features; for instance its particular modes of, and ideas about medical training, its predominant types and places of work, and its prevailing internal divisions of labor. Ordinarily when discussing occupations, historians pay strict attention to historical narrative but leaving structural aspects implicitly or entirely secondary to the painstaking hunt for chronological accuracy; while sociologists, their gaze mainly upon the contemporary scene, confront the occupation on its own contemporary grounds, and use occupational history only as a backdrop of the current drama. Additional insight can be gained by using both approaches. This book nevertheless is an interpretation of how certain promises structural and ideological features of American Medical Doctors have developed from certain historical conditions pertaining to the occupations of the country at large.
