Premium
Taking License with Medical Work: Notes on the Resolution of Risk and Uncertainty in a Gynecological Self‐Help Clinic
Author(s) -
Peterson Karen J.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
symbolic interaction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.874
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1533-8665
pISSN - 0195-6086
DOI - 10.1525/si.1978.1.2.138
Subject(s) - work (physics) , jurisdiction , limiting , license , psychology , resolution (logic) , risk analysis (engineering) , medicine , computer science , engineering , law , political science , artificial intelligence , mechanical engineering , operating system
Occupational case studies provide comparative data for studying the structure of work. In the case presented here, an occupational grouping which staked out its own jurisdiction provides a limiting case for the study of collective solutions to risk and uncertainty encountered in work. How a gynecological self‐help clinic organized work to protect individual workers from risk and its consequences shows that relationships among work, uncertainty, and risk are indeed flexible.