In the Field: A Sociologist's Journey
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (759 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1412855888 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 437 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-02 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
It is not a memoir in the conventional sense; rather, it is an ethnographic autobiography. In the Field, by Renée C. This volume will inspire new generations of social researchers.. 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. 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;
""Star of their night, calm rising through change and through storm."" according to Kenneth E. MacWilliams. At its commencement exercises in 2010 Harvard University conferred an honorary Doctor of Laws degree on Dr. Renée C. Fox. Harvard announced that the citation on the degree read "Exemplary expositor of medicine's moral conundrums, she reveals the pulsating reality of human relations in the quest of physicians to do good and no harm." All of the many books Dr. Fox has written bear witness . Superb! Riveting! Dr. Fox's "In The Field: A Sociologist's Journey" is superb! Each page is riveting! Each paragraph has a lyrical beauty which resonates with the heart and the mind of the reader. Each chapter opens a new world of experience, a world seen through the finely crafted lens of a sociologist and a poet. Dr. Fox's contribution to the field of sociology is legendary. and the story of her journey is hea. Five Stars Kristine A. Mulhorn This exceeds all expectations. A must read for sociologists and all social explorers.
Renée C. She is the author of numerous books. . Fox is Annenberg Professor Emerita of the Social Sciences and emerita senior fellow of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania
“After having read Renée Fox’s memoir, one is convinced that her life is definitely a novel, which takes the reader from her Russian grandparents immigrating to America to her study of the action of Doctors Without Borders in Moscow, from her New York public school years to her endowed professorship at the University of Pennsylvania, from her survey of students at Cornell Medical School to her study of organ replacement in the Harvard Program on Technology and Society, from her experience of polio as an adolescent to the discovery of her breast cancer as an adult, from Belgium to Congo, and from China to South Africa. Fox’s life story is and how she braids it together so effortlessly with these fundamental issues. Capron, Gould School of Law, University o