Explorations of a Mind-Traveling Sociologist2019

"Explorations of a Mind-Traveling Sociologist is a book of thematically interconnected ethnographic essays by the internationally esteemed sociologist Renee C. Fox, who employs a participant observer outlook to provide unique insight on such enduring - and pressing - issues as the lived experiences of physicians and patients. This includes patients who are physically challenged, elderly, mortally ill or beyond the reach of medical care; the origins and consequences of epidemic outbreaks of old and new plague-like infectious diseases that occur and recur, despite the impressive advances of medicine; the concomitants and challenges of aging; the wellsprings, dynamics and significance of medical humanitarian action; engagement with a 'beyond borders' world view; the occurrence of national and...