Research Catalog

Title

Doctors in a strange land : the place of international medical graduates in rural America / Leonard D. Baer.

Author

Baer, Leonard David

Publication

Lanham : Lexington Books, 2002.

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Details

Description

ix, 307 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Professional Practice
• Physician-Patient Relations
• Cross-Cultural Comparison
• Rural Health Services > manpower
• Foreign Medical Graduates
• Physicians, Foreign > United States
• Medicine, Rural > United States
• Social medicine > United States
• United States

Genre/Form

Personal Narrative

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-302) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part 1: Overview. -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical Framework -- Part 2: Case Study on Quincy -- 3. Background on Quincy: Across the Unclear Boundaries -- 4. Mechanisms and Quincy: Tipping Points For and Against Acceptability -- 5, Contexts and Quincy: "Breaking that Ice" -- Part 3: Case Study on Hamilton -- 6, Background on Hamilton: Tapestry on a Different Fabric -- 7. Mechanisms and Hamilton: Exclusions and Uncertainties -- 8. Contexts and Hamilton, Part I: Issues and Nonissues -- 9. Contexts and Hamilton, Part II: Peering into the Hologram -- Part 4: Conclusions -- 10. Conclusions -- Appendix.

ISBN

0739104934 (hbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002010337

OCLC

• 50129285
• SCSB-12278944

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library