Doctors’ Work in the Public Hospital Sector in Hong Kong
The Construction of Meanings and Values in Medical Practice
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Beschreibung
This book explores how public hospital sector doctors in Hong Kong understand their work and careers. Using narrative interviews with 27 medical doctors, the book examines how their personal values provide motivation and meaning for their work. How do they cope with the various hardships and crises they face in public hospitals? How can other doctors navigate similar issues in their own work? What should medical students know about the reality of medical work, as they stand poised to start their own career journeys? What should medical administrators know about work at the coal-face as they seek to tackle the problems the sector faces? This book offers a rare, personal window into doctors’ views on their own work. The book also provides a useful resource for students and scholars in the fields of medical humanities, public health, the sociology of work, and narrative research.
This book explores how public hospital sector doctors in Hong Kong understand their work and careers. Using narrative interviews with 27 medical doctors, the book examines how their personal values provide motivation and meaning for their work. How do they cope with the various hardships and crises they face in public hospitals? How can other doctors navigate similar issues in their own work? What should medical students know about the reality of medical work, as they stand poised to start their own career journeys? What should medical administrators know about work at the coal-face as they seek to tackle the problems the sector faces? This book offers a rare, personal window into doctors’ views on their own work. The book also provides a useful resource for students and scholars in the fields of medical humanities, public health, the sociology of work, and narrative research.
Explores how public hospital doctors in Hong Kong understand their work through narrative inquiry Examines what meanings and values sustain public hospital doctors’ work, and how these have developed across time The only book on Hong Kong medical practice that is wholly based on doctors’ narratives of their daily work
Autor*in
Evelyn Tsz Yan Chan
Themen in »Doctors’ Work in the Public Hospital Sector in Hong Kong«
Social Research in Medicine Narrative Research Hong Kong Public Hospital Doctors’ Work Narratives Human Values in the Medical Profession Quality of Life and Work for Medical Doctors Reflexivity in Medical Practice Narrative Research in the Health Sciences The Public Hospital Sector in Hong Kong