When Medicine Goes Awry

Case Studies in Medically Caused Suffering and Death

By: Juanne Nancarrow Clarke

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Paperback | 28 January 2022

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Examining high profile case studies of medically caused suffering and death, When Medicine Goes Awry critiques the present functioning of the medical care system and the pharmaceutical industry.

Medical error often results in disability, pain, and suffering, and it is the third leading cause of death in hospitals. Despite its frequency, medical error has been largely invisible to the mainstream public. Within the medical system itself, medical error is often understood as the result of an isolated case of malpractice.

When Medicine Goes Awry argues that the causes of medical error are not an anomaly but rather the outcome of a number of factors at play, ranging from political to social to economic. When Medicine Goes Awry dismisses the common blame perspective associated with medical malpractice, instead asserting that medical error is – and will continue to be – inevitable, given the relentless and expanding processes of medicalization. Shedding light on the ways these forces lead to medicine going awry, the book examines seven well-known cases of medical error.

Taking an in-depth look at both patients and medical care providers, Juanne Nancarrow Clarke offers a novel approach to medical error or mishap that applies sociological research and theory to the larger societal forces contributing to a taxing and endemic medical problem.

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When Medicine Goes Awry is an innovative and distinctive addition to our limited understanding of medical mistakes and their damaging consequences for the people maltreated. Juanne Nancarrow Clarke employs sociological concepts including medicalization, pharmaceuticalization, and health determinants to analytically connect seven recent Canadian cases of medical calamities caused by health care providers of different genders and professions that led to unnecessary suffering and, in some cases, death. Clarke's book is a creative addition to the sociology of medicine and health care.

- Cecilia Benoit, PhD, Scientist, Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research, and Professor Emerita, Department of Sociology, University of Victoria

Juanne Nancarrow Clarke's comparative sociological analysis of patient- and provider-focused case studies of medical errors offers an important glimpse into their systemic causes and potential solutions.

- Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, Professor of Sociological and Anthropological Studies, University of Ottawa, and Founder of the Canadian Society for the Sociology of Health

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