In 1988, Marianne Paget published the Unity of Mistakes: A Phenomenological Interpretation of Medical Work in which she argued that error is an intrinsic feature in medicine an experimental and uncertain activity. This work presents a collection of her personal and professional writings on the phenomenon of error in medicine.
In 1988, Marianne Paget published the Unity of Mistakes: A Phenomenological Interpretation of Medical Work in which she argued that error is an intrin...
Argues that error is an intrinsic feature in medicine - an experimental and uncertain activity. This collection of the author's personal and professional writings on the phenomenon of error in medicine chronicles a young scholar's courageous struggle to make sense of a tragic coincidence.
Argues that error is an intrinsic feature in medicine - an experimental and uncertain activity. This collection of the author's personal and professio...
Long considered a classic on the nature of medical mistakes, Marianne Paget's The Unity of Mistakes is now available to a new generation of readers. Paget - who herself died of a medical error - argued that mistakes are an intrinsic part of the clinical process. Encompassing a much wider range of error than the terms malpractice, incompetence, or negligence denote, The Unity of Mistakes takes an existential view of medical work in which things go wrong as a matter of course, and probes what Paget called the complex sorrow that can result when things do go wrong.
Long considered a classic on the nature of medical mistakes, Marianne Paget's The Unity of Mistakes is now available to a new generation of readers. P...
