Doctors’ Work in the Public Hospital Sector in Hong Kong

The Construction of Meanings and Values in Medical Practice

AvEvelyn Tsz Yan Chan,Sunny H. Wong

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Del 22 i serien Quality of Life in Asia

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Beskrivning

This book explores how public hospital sector doctors in Hong Kong understand their work and careers. Using narrative interviews with 27 medical doctors, the book examines how their personal values provide motivation and meaning for their work. How do they cope with the various hardships and crises they face in public hospitals? How can other doctors navigate similar issues in their own work? What should medical students know about the reality of medical work, as they stand poised to start their own career journeys? What should medical administrators know about work at the coal-face as they seek to tackle the problems the sector faces? This book offers a rare, personal window into doctors’ views on their own work. The book also provides a useful resource for students and scholars in the fields of medical humanities, public health, the sociology of work, and narrative research.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-06-22
Mått:155 x 235 x 13 mm
Vikt:358 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Quality of Life in Asia
Antal sidor:112
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9789819666942

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Folkhälsa och hälsopedagogik inom Medicin

Mer om författaren

Evelyn Chan was previously an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where she taught for 13 years. Chan has published widely on the representations of work in the writings of Virginia Woolf and Joseph Conrad. She has also published essays and books on narratives of education in the humanities. This book combines her interests in narrative research and the meaning of work.Sunny Wong is Clinician-Scientist and Associate Professor at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University Singapore. He received his MBChB with Honors at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and his D.Phil. in University of Oxford on human genetics and infectious diseases. He completed his clinical training in gastroenterology and endoscopy in the Prince of Wales Hospital Hong Kong. His main research interest is on gut microbiome, investigating the host-microbe interaction in digestive and metabolic diseases, and exploring this for discovery of novel biomarkers and therapeutics.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Public Hospital Doctors’ Narratives in Hong Kong.- Chapter 3 Narrative Interviews.- Discussion.- Conclusion: Moving Forward.