"Even if I don't know what I'm doing I can make it look like I know what I'm doing": Becoming a doctor in the 1990s

Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 275-292

  Beagan, Brenda L ^a  

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ARTICLE; CANADA; HISTORY; PHYSICIAN; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE;

CANADA; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; PHYSICIANS; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE;

EID: 0035413568     PISSN: 00084948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-618x.2001.tb00974.x     Document Type: Article

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