In the Field: A Sociologist's Journey
In the Field, by Renee C. Fox, is a narrative account of the author's life as a sociologist. It is not a memoir in the conventional sense; rather, it is an ethnographic autobiography. Drawing on a vast reservoir of notes and documents that chronicle the span of her career, this work also focuses on the places Fox's field research has carried her.

Propelled by a conviction to move beyond the boundaries of herself and of her native land, Fox has done first-hand research in Europe, Central Africa, and China, as well as in the United States. The majority of her research has centered on health, illness, and medicine. Other recurrent themes that pervade her work include training for uncertainty; the allocation of scarce resources; the relationship between self and others; detachment and concern; the particular and the universal; the harm that can result from intended good; and the questions posed by illness and accident, pain and suffering, and death.

It is Fox's commitment as a teacher and mentor of generations of students that lies at the heart of this book. This volume will inspire new generations of social researchers.

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In the Field: A Sociologist's Journey
In the Field, by Renee C. Fox, is a narrative account of the author's life as a sociologist. It is not a memoir in the conventional sense; rather, it is an ethnographic autobiography. Drawing on a vast reservoir of notes and documents that chronicle the span of her career, this work also focuses on the places Fox's field research has carried her.

Propelled by a conviction to move beyond the boundaries of herself and of her native land, Fox has done first-hand research in Europe, Central Africa, and China, as well as in the United States. The majority of her research has centered on health, illness, and medicine. Other recurrent themes that pervade her work include training for uncertainty; the allocation of scarce resources; the relationship between self and others; detachment and concern; the particular and the universal; the harm that can result from intended good; and the questions posed by illness and accident, pain and suffering, and death.

It is Fox's commitment as a teacher and mentor of generations of students that lies at the heart of this book. This volume will inspire new generations of social researchers.

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In the Field: A Sociologist's Journey

In the Field: A Sociologist's Journey

by Renee C. Fox
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In the Field: A Sociologist's Journey

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In the Field, by Renee C. Fox, is a narrative account of the author's life as a sociologist. It is not a memoir in the conventional sense; rather, it is an ethnographic autobiography. Drawing on a vast reservoir of notes and documents that chronicle the span of her career, this work also focuses on the places Fox's field research has carried her.

Propelled by a conviction to move beyond the boundaries of herself and of her native land, Fox has done first-hand research in Europe, Central Africa, and China, as well as in the United States. The majority of her research has centered on health, illness, and medicine. Other recurrent themes that pervade her work include training for uncertainty; the allocation of scarce resources; the relationship between self and others; detachment and concern; the particular and the universal; the harm that can result from intended good; and the questions posed by illness and accident, pain and suffering, and death.

It is Fox's commitment as a teacher and mentor of generations of students that lies at the heart of this book. This volume will inspire new generations of social researchers.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781412814430
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Publication date: 09/15/2010
Pages: 442
Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Renee C. Fox

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: An Ethnography of the Life of a Sociologist
/1. Origins and Beginnings
/2. Growing up on West End Avenue
/3. Freshman Year (1944-1945) at Smith College, and the Summer of 1945
/4. Polio
/5. The Year in Whittier
/6. Return to Smith
/7. Graduate School: The Harvard Department of Social Relations
/8. Experiment Perilous
/9. Columbia University's Bureau of Applied Social Research and the Sociology of Medical Education Project
/10. Teaching at Barnard College
/11. The Summer of 1959: A Portal to Belgium
/12. The Transforming Effects of Belgium on My Life: Part I
/13. The Transforming Effects of Belgium on My Life: Part II
/14. Africa: Leopoldville, Kisantu, and Usumbura
/15. My Years in the Congo
/16. Deciding to Leave Barnard
Photographs
/17. Return to Harvard (1967-1969) 2
/18. Professor at the University of Pennsylvania (1969-)
/19. A Sociologist in a Medical School
Miss Balkema's Death
/20. Chairman Renee
/21. China, 1978
/Talcott Parsons's Death
/22. China, 1981: Tianjin and the "Team of Two"
/23. Bioethics: Refl ections of an Observing Participant
/My Parents' Deaths
/24. The 1990s: A Time of Consummation (I): "Knighthood"
/25. The 1990s: A Time of Consummation: (II): Leaving the Field of Organ Replacement
/26. Going Up to, and Coming Down from, Oxford
/27. Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders: Medical Humanitarianism and Its Dilemmas
/28. Retiring
/29. Willy's Last Days
/30. Becoming Eighty
/Envoi
Index

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