Perfection and Humanity: Memories of Charles L. Bosk

Sociologist Charles Bosk studied medical error for more than five decades. His core insight was that medicine is a human enterprise, marked by all of the hope, passion, frailty, and pathos of human nature. This often led him away from the kinds of engineering solutions that have been proposed in pat...

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Published in:Sociological forum (Randolph, N.J.) N.J.), 2023-12, Vol.38 (4), p.1516-1519
Main Author: Keirns, Carla C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Critical incidents
Engineering
health
Human nature
medical error
Memories
patient safety
Patients
Perfectionism
Process engineering
quality improvement
Radicalism
responsibility
sociology of medicine
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Summary:Sociologist Charles Bosk studied medical error for more than five decades. His core insight was that medicine is a human enterprise, marked by all of the hope, passion, frailty, and pathos of human nature. This often led him away from the kinds of engineering solutions that have been proposed in patient safety and process engineering, and toward a radical understanding of culture, character, and human responsibility.
ISSN:0884-8971
1573-7861
DOI:10.1111/socf.12941