Summing Up What Can Never be Summed Up: A Meditation on the Work and Legacy of Charles L. Bosk

Emily Adlin Bosk; Joanna Kempner; Elizabeth Mitchell Armstrong

doi:10.1111/socf.12939

Summing Up What Can Never be Summed Up: A Meditation on the Work and Legacy of Charles L. Bosk

Emily Adlin Bosk, Joanna Kempner, Elizabeth Mitchell Armstrong

Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

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This special issue of “The Forum” publishes Charles L. Bosk's final work—a book proposal written for a trade audience titled—The Price of Perfection: The Cost of Error. Five noted scholars Carol Heimer, Carla Keirns, Mark Neuman, Julia Szymczak, and Stefan Timmermans offer commentary. Their essays touch on common themes: Bosk's humanity, his wry sense of humor, and keen ability to highlight the absurdity of the social organization of contemporary medicine alongside the sacred obligation that accompanies caring for the sick. Together, the book proposal and these five essays focus our attention on the impact Bosk's scholarship had in medicine, sociology, and the patient safety movement.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1494-1496
Number of pages	3
Journal	Sociological Forum
Volume	38
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12939
State	Published - Dec 2023

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Sociology and Political Science

Keywords

Charles Bosk
ethnography
medical error
medical sociology
patient safety
preventable adverse event
systems approach

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