Producing bodies, illness and treatment in the clinic: case presentations and medical records

The article analyzes two types of practice involved in medical training - case presentations and the annotation of consultations in medical records - that play a fundamental role in divesting patients of their personal qualities and reconstituting them as an objective body, a set of organs, the site...

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Main Authors: Iara Maria de Almeida Souza, Luiz Antonio da Costa Lino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Series:Mana
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Online Access:http://socialsciences.scielo.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-93132007000100004&lng=en&tlng=en