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Good research teaches us something we didn't know, maybe that we didn't even realize we needed to know. But how does a researcher setting out to do their work find those elusive, illuminating insights? How can you create a surprise? Sociologists Stefan Timmermans and Iddo Tavory have been teaching young scholars how to do just that, and in Data Analysis in Qualitative Research, they explore the foundations of conducting revelatory ethnographic...

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Drawing on observations and interviews with families, doctors, and policy actors, this book presents an ethnographic study of how parents and geneticists resolve the many uncertainties in screening newborns. It is suitable for scholars of medicine, public health, and public policy.

The author goes deep inside the world of medical examiners to uncover the intricate web of pathological, social, legal, and moral issues in which they operate.

This book brings together papers on the border between crime and health care in order to examine questions of interest to both criminologists and medical sociologists. Brings together papers on the border between crime and health care.

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Sudden Death and the Myth of CPR is for anyone who has taken a CPR course or who believes the images from television dramas. It is also for families of victims and survivors of CPR. It will engage emergency personnel, others in the medical field, and anyone concerned with ethical issues of death and dying.Anyone who has ever taken a CPR course has wondered, "What would happen if I actually had to use CPR?" In Western societies, the lifesaving ...

Explores the effects of changes in the delivery of medical care. This book investigates the real meaning of standardization and how it affects patients, doctors, and the institution of medicine.

Stefan Timmermans is Associate Professor of Sociology at Brandeis University, and author of Sudden Death and the Myth of CPR (Temple), which was nominated for the C. Wright Mills Book Award. Marc Berg is Professor of Social Medical Sciences at the Erasmus University Medical Center in The Netherlands, and author of Rationalizing Medical Work: A Study of Decision Support Techniques and Medical Practices.