New Observations

-This slender volume is . . . an overview of various aspects of the medical school experience as they affect and are shaped by certain features and concerns of the personal lives of medical students. The book draws on the theoretical perspectives and methodology of symbolic interactionism as those have been applied specifically to the processes entailed in the acquisition of professional medical identity. . . . [The] book serves as a nice illustration for students, in particular, of the usefulness of sociological concepts in explicating the patterned arrangements of everyday life and experiences.-

--Martha R. Fowlkes, Contemporary Sociology "This slender volume is . . . an overview of various aspects of the medical school experience as they affect and are shaped by certain features and concerns of the personal lives of medical students. The book draws on the theoretical perspectives and methodology of symbolic interactionism as those have been applied specifically to the processes entailed in the acquisition of professional medical identity. . . . [The] book serves as a nice illustration for students, in particular, of the usefulness of sociological concepts in explicating the patterned arrangements of everyday life and experiences."

--Martha R. Fowlkes, Contemporary Sociology "This slender volume is . . . an overview of various aspects of the medical school experience as they affect and are shaped by certain features and concerns of the personal lives of medical students. The book draws on the theoretical perspectives and methodology of symbolic interactionism as those have been applied specifically to the processes entailed in the acquisition of professional medical identity. . . . [The] book serves as a nice illustration for students, in particular, of the usefulness of sociological concepts in explicating the patterned arrangements of everyday life and experiences."

--Martha R. Fowlkes, Contemporary Sociology