Openness and specialisation: Dealing with patients in a hospital emergency service

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 413-444

  Dodier, Nicolas ^a   Camus, Agnès ^a  

^a Ctr Rech Medecine   (France)

Author keywords

Emergency; Ethnography; Hospital sociology; Medical work; Organisation of work

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032363699     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.00109     Document Type: Article

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