Becoming a Doctor

Re-Membering a Medical Education

Christopher D Ward (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

200 Seiten

2026
First Hill Books (Verlag)
978-1-83999-705-1 (ISBN)

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Becoming a Doctor describes what it feels like to be transformed from a naïve student into a professorial physician. This very personal ‘re-membering’ evokes the joys, absurdities and frustrations of medical work. The author observes his younger self’s efforts to regulate feelings and to communicate with patients and colleagues in prescribed ways. The relationships with patients he describes often feel like performances in which the doctor’s self need play little part. Other ways of being a doctor are hard to imagine within a hospital, where patients’ day-to-day concerns are invisible. Doctors in the 1960s, as now, were more focused on disease than on illness or suffering. They avoided thinking about death and were curiously silent about healing, recovery or rehabilitation. Becoming a Doctor shows how difficult it is for a young person to resist the pressures of history and culture. These pressures are described from the inside, along with medicine’s often puzzling pleasures.

Christopher D Ward is Emeritus Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine, and also a Family and Systemic Psychotherapist. His most recent book is Between Sickness and Health: The Landscape of Illness and Wellness (2020).

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.5.2026
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Studium
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10	1-83999-705-2 / 1839997052
ISBN-13	978-1-83999-705-1 / 9781839997051
Zustand	Neuware